Darren Pauli puts it our there at CW with his new Vent IT section (good stuff Darren!):

You can see if you squint really hard what they are trying to do but gees, it seems like they are [the government], swinging a bat in dark room hoping to connect with the “target” – not that they really know what the target is. In the meantime, connecting with all else in the room and doing some big damage and creating a mess. Bad analogy?

Somewhat related:
http://beastorbuddha.com/2008/03/01/stuff-like-this-scares-me/