Defense Tech: NSA Phone Sweep a 'Waste of Time', Analyst Says

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Here's a novel article.

Via Defense Tech.

[snip]

It'd be one thing if the NSA's massive sweep of our phone records was actually helping catch terrorists. But what if 
it's not working at all?

A leading practitioner of the kind of analysis the NSA is supposedly performing in this surveillance program says that 
"it's a waste of time, a waste of resources. And it lets the real terrorists run free."

[snip]

More here:
http://www.defensetech.org/archives/002399.html

- ferg


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 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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