From Wired: "Nearly half of the FBI's 26,000 desktop computers are outdated, and most of its offices share 56K connections to the main FBI network, making the downloading of a digital photograph a nice afternoon's work. These days, data mining at the FBI is the task of about 1,000 of the bureau's 28,000 employees, who sift by hand through information collected by field agents ... And until about five years ago, the FBI's database consisted of 3-by-5 index cards stored in gray metal file cabinets in field offices and at headquarters."