Former NSA Genius Apologizes for His Super Spying Software
Long before 9/11 , bright NSA crypto - mathematician Bill Binney had develop an algorithm to make good sense of the implausibly massive amounts of datum American spy were take out in — he call it ThinThread . And then it went very , very improper . ThinThread , the New Yorker reports , proved to be too good : contrive to chase foreign enemies via their electronic footprint , Binney was horror-stricken to find that the knock-down software processed mammoth amounts of American communication as well ....