NSA reportedly collecting millions of email address books and IM contact lists

At somepoint, instead of just trying to get more secure through encryption, I'd love to see some folks try and find a way to just clog their systems by increasing the amount of background noise / data.

Kinda like when you're in a large company, and someone does a mass e-mail by mistake to a whole hidden distribution list... and then someone else replies telling them to take them off this d-list, etc, etc, and next thing you know the company turns off the e-mail until they sort it out.

Or maybe when loading your desired webpage, an extension pulls in 10 other random text-intensive pages at the same time in background tabs...

Obviously I'm not operating on the level that it'll actually work, but that Doctorow book had some fun concepts in it.