Harish Mallipeddi

On why mass surveillance of phone calls and emails by NSA is useless

I found this really interesting article by a Norwegian professor which explains why NSA & Bush administration’s decision to monitor all the phone calls and email messages of all Americans is such a stupid idea. His arguments are based upon a simple theorem in statistics called the Bayes theorem. In brief, the author says that the whole mass surveillance idea would seem logical and sane only if America was paranoid - paranoid enough to belief that there are around a million terrorists in America. Read the article Tags: bayes, theorem, uncle sam, big brother, NSA, Bush, America, surveillance, phone tapping, email, terrorism, paranoia

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