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Is that comforting? It just leaves all the risks associated with an invasion of privacy with none of the claimed security upsides. Just because they can’t use
by bonyt 7y ago
Is that comforting? It just leaves all the risks associated with an invasion of privacy with none of the claimed security upsides.
Just because they can’t use it competently doesn’t mean they can’t abuse it.
- turk73 7y agoThe NSA is the same way. Just because they can hoover up all that data doesn't mean they can do much with it. I wrote an article about this issue years ago. The false positive rate looking for terrorists must be horrifying--like millions of false positives for every real positive. Utterly worthless. Then they changed the mission to identifying all kinds of criminal acts and passed the intel along to the FBI and other police agencies, who then lie about how they found out about the perpetrators and develop a "parallel construction" in order not to expose the intelligence collection apparatus. Unfortunately, parallel construction is illegal. This is the America we live in. I am patiently waiting for any justice to be visited in the right places. I will wait forever.