Stop Comparing the NSA to 1984 (and Start Comparing It to Philip K. Dick)
As any intelligence operative knows, isolated facts don't tell you much. If some random person mentions a bomb somewhere on the Internet, is that a threat? A joke? A mistake? To understand data you need a context and a narrative. You need to be able to put it in a story.
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