
Originally Posted by
Winston001
What I find interesting is that Americans aren't bothered or alarmed by Snowdon's revelations. Most of the noise is whether the guy is a traitor or a whistle-blower. There is no wave of public indignation that the NSA is gathering gigabytes of information.
I don't like it but its kind of like an elephant trying to thread a needle. The task the NSA has of trying to make sense of the data produced by 3 billion connected people is impossible.
Watch the Binney interview video and he describes the way his program does exactly that (in broad terms), He wrote the program for use against other bad naughty countries and blew the whistle on them circa 2002
Political correctness: a doctrine which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd from the clean end.
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