>>> The NSA internet data collection is perhaps the most frivolous government program in the history of the United States. This. If you listen to the old NSA

>>> The NSA internet data collection is perhaps the most frivolous government program in the history of the United States. This. If you listen to the old NSA guys who worked during the heights of the Cold War, who keep tabs on Russians and all the chaos in the Middle East, and had some of these tools at their disposal, they all say the NSA was a great machine for intelligence. It was a great machine for developing assets and tracking bad people. As soon as those weapons and the machine were turned inward on the people they were supposed to protect, they all said it was the worst possible scenario. Also, if you look at some of the higher profile hacker cases, and to some degree the Ross Ulbricht case, how were they all cracked? Not by the NSA and all its tools, they were all done with your standard, "feet on the street" agents developing leads, connecting dots, and capturing human surveillance. It wasn't some Flame or Stuxnet bug that brought down these guys, it was just solid detective work.