Do we need the NSA?

[Sterben]

If the NSA gets disbanded, then how will the U.S. Government find a way to play Stasi with its entire population?

Also, fun fact: I remember looking at an article comparing the Stasi archives with the NSA's archives. Trying for a decent apples-to-apples comparison between the Stasi's filing cabinets of files on its citizens and the digital data the NSA is willing to compile on every American citizen (and likely quite a few that aren't), they calculated that a hypothetical building for physical files on the scale they're prepared to collect would be roughly the size of Russia or South America. Regardless of whether or not there may be good points about the NSA, this is fucking disturbing.

        Thanks the link, I'll have to read it. I'm not really shocked, all that useless data. That's a lot of animal pictures being sent to mom.