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No, they want to collect everything to find something to hang you with after the fact. There is way too much volume and noise to find threats in the hurricane
by bobdole1234 11y ago
No, they want to collect everything to find something to hang you with after the fact.
There is way too much volume and noise to find threats in the hurricane of hay flying past to find the needles in real time.
But if you have someone specific to start targeting, you can quite easily take their whole life apart and find their friends and make all these connections after the fact.
The goal isn't to stop attacks, it's to ensure that nobody goes unpunished.
- Steve44 11y agoIt helps them to find people who they were in contact with and so get deeper into their network. If they have a log of all the telephone calls they are then able to run a simple "SELECT * from BigTable WHERE 'badphone' = NumberCalled" and then take the investigation from there. I know that's simplified but gives a highly filtered starting point of people of interest. Another reason not to publicise their successes is that may give an indication of how they are tracking and if the terrorists know how they are being tracked they can change how they operate. For example perhaps they always call directory enquiries to get a number/address and if that is the way in it's in the interest of the spies to not let them know that so they can continue to use that chink.
- nitrogen 11y agoYou don't need all the call records in government hands to get that info. A narrow warrant for the call records of the named suspects would suffice.