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Interesting. How many people, would you say, have a textual conversation over email or FB or a forum, etc, that had ended up in an NSA dragnet?

Then, of those conversations (presumably several billion), how many are stored with some identifiable metadata, like IP address, GPS tag, real name, photo?

Even if it is only a few million people, it's still way too much of an overreach, and still ridiculously cheap to store on tape and analyze on disk/ssd.

then you just pay someone who cant find any better work to type queries into a system.

How many times have you talked about potential crimes with your friends? how many times have they talked about using drugs, fake IDs, speeding, petty theft, etc

how many times has "child porn" inadvertantly made it into your browsers temporary files.

Almost everything is a crime, and the government's ability to cheaply prosecute is only growing



I am aware of all that, and I can see how it would be feasible given enough compute power and cooperation from FB et. al.

My issue is with your claim that the NSA could incriminate "literally" anyone on the planet.


I agree that literally is an exaggeration, and that for now, masai warriors and newborn infants are safe :)




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