In today's Star Tribune, renowned computer security expert Bruce Schneier explains in plain language why the NSA spying program is a remarkably ineffective way to identify potential threats. He hypothesizes an "unrealistically accurate system" for data mining personal information and demonstrates that it would generate billions of false alarms and millions of false leads. As many news reports have stated, the real world NSA spying program has performed predictably poorly.

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