Obama's Black Widow

Barack Obama will be in charge of the biggest domestic and international spying operation in history. Its prime engine is the National Security Agency (NSA)—located and guarded at Fort Meade, Maryland, about 10 miles northeast of Washington, D.C. A brief glimpse of its ever-expanding capacity was provided on October 26 by The Baltimore Sun's national security correspondent, David Wood: "The NSA's colossal Cray supercomputer, code-named the 'Black Widow,' scans millions of domestic and international phone calls and e-mails every hour. . . . The Black Widow, performing hundreds of trillions of calculations per second, searches through and reassembles key words and patterns, across many languages."

You should be careful what you put in your emails (and on your blogs) because they are watching and listening. I'm almost through with "The Broken Window" by Jefferey Deaver where the bad guy accesses info through a data mining operation to cover up his misdeeds and implicate innocents by manipulating the data. A very scary - and believable - misapplication of the massive amount of information which is available on us.