NSA Drowns In Useless Data, Impeding Work, Former Employee Claims 120
An anonymous reader writes in with this story of confusion at the NSA due to the flood of data they harvest. "Some of the documents released by Mr. Snowden detail concerns inside the NSA about drowning in information. An internal briefing document in 2012 about foreign cellphone-location tracking by the agency said the efforts were 'outpacing our ability to ingest, process and store' data. In March 2013, some NSA analysts asked for permission to collect less data through a program called Muscular because the 'relatively small intelligence value it contains does not justify the sheer volume of collection,' another document shows. In response to questions about Mr. Binney's claims, an NSA spokeswoman says the agency is 'not collecting everything, but we do need the tools to collect intelligence on foreign adversaries who wish to do harm to the nation and its allies.'"
Solution... (Score:5, Funny)
It's not actually a problem. (Score:5, Funny)
Because it's only simulated drowning.
Fucking good. (Score:2, Funny)
Good. Let's create some more useless data for them, I'm starting a second Tor node and a Freenet node tonight.
Re:Wasn't that the problem (Score:5, Funny)
Makes little sense to me.
You're obviously too intelligent to get very far in intelligence work.