I vote for more explicit. You're implying that the NSA is somehow utilizing the SETI@Home volunteer network for some nefarious purpose, and I don't see anything

I vote for more explicit. You're implying that the NSA is somehow utilizing the SETI@Home volunteer network for some nefarious purpose, and I don't see anything other than "they both like big computing power" that connects them. Also, do you really think the NSA would put any information on a distributed network like that for processing? The NSA has a huge budget and nearly limitless control of the pliers squeezing the ${BODYPART}s of congress. They don't need your home PC to crunch numbers for them.