who said the data isn't valuable years down the line? Crack today, who knows. Crack in the future, more than likely.

This is a claim that has been made about the Total Information Awareness program, its offshoots and, specifically, the NSA's big datacenter that was in the news some years ago: that one of the things the NSA are doing is collecting all the data they can in the hope they can make sense of it later, even I'd they can't now.