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NSA Metadata Collection Program Has Stopped Zero Attacks

Posted by Soulskill on from the raise-your-hand-if-you're-surprised dept.

Antipater writes "According to a member of the White House panel that recently called for the NSA's metadata-collection program to be curtailed, that program has not stopped any terrorist actions at all. This runs counter to the stories we've heard for months, which claimed as many as fifty prevented attacks. 'Stone declined to comment on the accuracy of public statements by U.S. intelligence officials about the telephone collection program, but said that when they referred to successes they seemed to be mixing the results of domestic metadata collection with the intelligence derived from the separate, and less controversial, NSA program, known as 702, to intercept communications overseas.'"

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  1. Wait a second... by SteveFoerster · · Score: 5, Funny

    You mean the lying liars who lie for a living... lied?

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    1. Re:Wait a second... by BSAtHome · · Score: 1, Funny

      Yes, but it did not hurt the bottom line. The NSA has prevented many, many economic failures. Terrorists are so last decade. The real value is in the economic edge you can blackmail from all others.

  2. The NSA probed our anus and found shit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The NSA probed our anus and found shit. What else is new.

  3. Zero-day attacks by DocSavage64109 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Apparently I'm the only one to think they were taking credit for stopping zero-day malware attacks.

  4. Most surprising. by MRe_nl · · Score: 4, Funny

    I didn't know people still flew Zero's.

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  5. let's not be so pessimistic by Trepidity · · Score: 5, Funny

    Another way of phrasing this is that the NSA's metadata collection program, while admittedly not perfect, has met or exceeded the benchmarks set by peer agencies, such as the TSA.

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  6. What the hell's a "Zero Attack"? by tippe · · Score: 3, Funny

    That sounds scary as shit. Sounds like something Magneto would do. I don't know about you guys, but I'm sure glad the NSA is on my side. Keep up the good work, boys!

  7. Nearly one? by iamriley · · Score: 3, Funny

    Interviewer: Now tell me, what exactly are you doing?

    Spotter: Er well, I'm camel spotting. I'm spotting to see if there are any camels that I can spot, and put them down in my camel spotting book.

    Interviewer: Good. And how many camels have you spotted so far?

    Spotter: Oh, well so far Peter, up to the present moment, I've spotted nearly, ooh, nearly one.

    Interviewer: Nearly one?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RexQLrcqwc

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