I remember maybe a decade ago talking to a person in computer security. What I was surprised was a strange turn of events in the 'exploits' arena. Although they monitored exploits/cert/etc, they also monitored the people who were involved in exploits.

I kind of wonder if the political arena is quietly doing the same thing. Instead of targeting dissenting opinions, it might be possible and effective to target the people with dissenting opinions.

sort of scary.