I've started following the Snowden/PRISM thing a bit more, and came across this via twitter:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/15/crux-nsa-collect-it-all Regardless of opinions on the ethics/legal side, the "collect it all" approach seems just impossible for me to grok. Lets suppose you *did* have all the data generated on the internet every day for the last 20 years. What could you do with it? I presume they are using specialized hardware, possibly openCL sort of processing via GPU farms. Fine. How would you turn this into a usable tool? Color me naive, but isn't this a self generated DOS on themselves? -- Owen
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