ECHELON@home
The Indepundit reports that the NSA, taking a page from the SETI@home project, is launching a program to use idle cycles on people's home computers to help process vast quantities of intercepted communications.
When asked why Americans would volunteer to have a highly secretive intelligence agency analyze data on their computers, [NSA spokesman George] Sharpe chuckled. “Imagine what a hero you would be if your computer was the one that intercepted a call from bin Laden. SETI has logged over a million years of CPU time, and they have yet to find a single Little Green Man. If we get that much participation, we could have al Qaeda wrapped up in months!"
(Yes, this article is a joke.)