The National Security Agency has shut down its controversial PRISM program, which many believed to be archiving personal communications between innocent civilians, not due to privacy concerns, but logistical issues.
The Utah Data Center, also known as the Intelligence Community Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative Data Center, boasts the ability to store yottabytes of data, which is a completely made up word. Even so, the center has already run into unexpected problems.
A leaked quote between the director of the site and a low-level employee with a GED has been released:
“We’ve built this gigantic facility in the desert to house all of the data that we’ve been collecting on both good guys and bad, because you don’t know when a good guy will eventually talk to a bad guy. The problem is, we did not nearly anticipate the unbelievable volume of cat pictures that are passed from one citizen to another. This has overshot our projections to the point where the new facility will be obsolete in a matter of months. In fact, we’ve made the startling discovery that 87% of all internet traffic is indeed pictures of cats. Cats laying around, cats sitting on the counter. Cats dressed up. Cats with captions. Holy god, if I never see another cat picture!”
Pending plans cite decommissioning of the site by the end of 2013.
My cat had no idea she could wield so much power just by doing something cute.
Didn’t anyone learn anything following the Y2K glitch?
What is wrong with all the cat pics? What is more important? National security or cute kitties?