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If you think the NSA has everyone's emails squirreled away in their teensy little data center then you do not understand the scale of email.
by honkhonkpants 10y ago
If you think the NSA has everyone's emails squirreled away in their teensy little data center then you do not understand the scale of email.
- 551199 10y agoLike when Snowden documents showed just that?
- crystalmeph 10y agoNot everyone's, but certainly high value targets would have more of their email stored long-term than say, yours. Legality of the NSA accessing the US SoS' emails aside, I'm sure some intelligence officials somewhere would love to have that trove to dig through to get maximum traction in any back room discussions. Which is why it was probably not a good idea (I don't mean "illegal", mind you, just not what I call a "good idea") for the Clintons to host any of their email, including their private emails, on what is basically a home server supported by what appears to have been a very small technical staff.