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Whistleblower: NSA Is So Overwhelmed With Data, It's No Longer Effective (zdnet.com)
An anonymous reader cites ZDNet's Zack Whittaker report: William Binney, a former NSA official who spent more than three decades at the agency, said the US government's mass surveillance programs have become so engorged with data that they are no longer effective, losing vital intelligence in the fray. That, he said, can -- and has -- led to terrorist attacks succeeding. Binney said that an analyst today can run one simple query across the NSA's various databases, only to become immediately overloaded with information. With about four billion people -- around two-thirds of the world's population -- under the NSA and partner agencies' watchful eyes, according to his estimates, there is too much data being collected. Perhaps that's one of the reasons why NSA wants to dump the phone records it gathered over the past 14 years.
How come I get modded down as a goddamned troll when all I'm doing is expressing my actual opinion and analysis of things as I see them, but this obvious muck-sucking troll doesn't get modded down? I call bullshit on the entire moderation system on Slashdot. Does Mister Anonymous Coward Troll have multiple accounts he uses for the moderation points? Go to hell, fuck you, eat shit and die.
Not agreeing with what I post does not make me a troll!
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