Everyone gets their 15 minutes of fame. The NSA dude, Edward Snowden, got more than his fair share.

What I found fascinating was his description of how the system will create connections from things you have done and create an artificial and suspicious narrative.

As I listened to him talk, I remembered where I had seen this theory before — it’s in a TV show called Person of Interest.

The central conceit of the show is that there is a computer that has access to every data source on the planet and is making connections and finding bad guys before anyone else can .

Which made me laugh. Occam’s razor says that the simplest solution is the likeliest. So what’s more likely some low-level person invented some impossible to disprove conspiracy theory based on a hit TV show OR the NSA is monitoring computers systems without the smartest minds of my generation figuring it out.

When this is all said and done, we will discover that these are the false claims made by a media hungry person. And we will also, rediscover that press’ technology literacy is abysmal.