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Details of the NSA wiretaps in december 2005 revealed

author: www-data

Schäuble looks like a squirrel in a wheelchair compared to this:

Russel Tice, former NSA analyst and now a "whistleblower" declared that NSA "spied on everyone", 365 days a week, every fax, every telephone, payment & billing information etc.

"even for the NSA it's impossible to literally collect all communications. [...] What was done was sort of an ability to look at the metadata [...] and ferret that information to determine what communications would ultimately be collected."

But apparently, even if it was impossible to store all the information on everybody, the NSA did store all communication at least for certain selected subjects, like certain organization and the one or the other newspaper.

"An organization that was collected on were US news organizations and reporters and journalists."

I'm quite tired of shouting out loud "I know where it's going to end, we're doomed, freedom is dead" yadda yadda... let's just skip it, shall we?

How the heck are they going go get any useful information out of that?... It's not only that it's such a huge amount of data, but the statistics must be quite miserable at some point (in terms of "needle and haystack", not of "average communication subject"). I mean, imagine that you're the NSA and you don't know what you're looking for. How the hell are you going to find decent filtering parameters for 230 million people?

On the other hand, if you know exactly who you're looking for, but you need to review his/her communication of the past ... ahm ... years, now that would make sense.

Whatever.

I think it's time we start doing something about it -- maybe a good idea would be to send all kinds of trash via your idle connections... let them save that! If a critical mass of people around the world sent 10...100 times more garbage through their lines, then NSA would either have to save it all, or to do a real-time garbage-filtering. Whatever their gain:cost ration is right now, that would probably get several orders of magnitude more inefficient. It would consume 10...100 times more engery, destroy the rain forrest and kill lots of puppies at the same time. But then again, one might actually be able put some pressure on western governments to do something and stop this surveillance insanity.

After all, the puppies argument did work with the car industry, didn't it... :-) (Or was it the one with the rain forrest? :-p)

2009-01-24 01:46 | www-datarootshell.ro | [/news/politics] | permanent link