“We Are This Far From A Turnkey Totalitarian State"

[ptoemmes]

That's a quote from the article linked below and from someone who just might know about such things.

Long read: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/all/1

[muggsy]

One can never have too much intelligence.

[chrish]

Hard to believe I used to want to work for these goofs. No thanks. Scary.

[Longitude Zero]

The gathering is troubling enough. However the NSA has the same problem today as pre-9/11 and that is not enough analysts to even decipher 1/100,000 of 1% of the information flowing thru.

Even with massive computers sifting thru getting any useful and timely intelligence is sketchy at best. It is akin to finding 500 BB's flowing out of 10,000 firehoses all running at full power. If you get a few you are incredibly lucky.

At some distant time they will eventually get the technology to have ALL the date analyzed in real time. But not even in my kids lifetimes do I believe that will happen.

[SpecK]

White. Smoke. This is bulsh**.

[apheod]

White. Smoke. This is bulsh**.

could you explain why, other than the fact that it's easier to deny scary things than face them?

what specifically there do you take issue with?