My favorite part: "plaintiffs conclude that there is a greater than 9.9999999999% chance that the NSA has intercepted at least on of their over 1 trillion commu

My favorite part: "plaintiffs conclude that there is a greater than 9.9999999999% chance that the NSA has intercepted at least on of their over 1 trillion communications on the basis of an arbitrary assumption, namely that there is a 0.00000001% chance that the NSA will intercept any particular internet communication. Plaintiffs provide no basis for the 0.00000001% figure, nor do they explain why the figure is presented as a conservative assumption." I suppose they didn't technically, but the NSA (in 2011) stated they ~9% of 250 mil internet communications were from upstream (note, 22.5 million). For the .00000001% number to be true given any number less than 225 quadrillion connections through US nodes(yes, 225000 times wikipedia's traffic at #7 alexa ranking) to be made annually. Traffic such as netflix and torrenting (apart from initial metadata) would be disregarded as meaningless data in any meaningful system and as such would be redundant in this count. Even including that data, we can see that HTTP is at least ~10% of downstream data (from sandvine broadband) and can reasonably say 10000 trillion (10 quadrillion) total http connections(basing this on wikipedia's 1 trillion connections and adding some wiggle room, but I'm fairly certain it can be proven that it's [much] less than this) then we only reach 100 quadrillion total net traffic; less than half of what we would need for this number to be untrue. Of course they still can't prove that the NSA isn't just ignoring wikipedia traffic somehow, so the case would still get thrown out.