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Regarding cyber-espionage in general:
It is certainly true that today cyber-spies are collecting more data in seconds than some of the history's most notorious spies accumulated over a career.
But data is not information until it has been analyzed and vetted. I wonder sometimes if the sheer volumes of information does not become its own problem for these agencies.
When Aldrich Ames produced a microfilm, there were an army of analysts waiting on it.
I suspect in China these days, that for each quality analyst there are thousands of terrabytes of data to be scrubbed and analyzed (if estimates of their collection are accurate). One wonders whether or not in spite of the quantity collected, the quality of the end analysis is really any better.
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El Diablo sabe mas por viejo que por diablo.
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