But the Edward Snowden slides and story published yesterday at The Intercept convey a wealth of new detailed information about the NSA’s technology and its limitations.

First, it’s clear that the NSA has settled on a system called QUANTUM as its preferred, if not near-universal, internet exploitation mechanism. QUANTUM is vastly more effective than just sending spam. But since its launch at NSA, the program has clearly suffered from both mission creep and target creep.