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It wasn't 26 people being surveilled, it was many people (hundreds or thousands) being surveilled in an attempt to track the 26 individuals.
by luhn 9y ago
It wasn't 26 people being surveilled, it was many people (hundreds or thousands) being surveilled in an attempt to track the 26 individuals.
- mjevans 9y agoIt sounds like they stingrayed or otherwise captured an entire node (on some system / a few systems covering a specific area) and then attempted to sieve out what they were actually looking for... instead of actually going after a surgically targeted filter. Even in the Jason Borne movies they didn't slurp up this much data!
- oogali 9y agoThe directors and script writers weren't nearly imaginative enough (or clued in?) to dream up the surveillance infrastructure the US has been deploying and iterating on for decades.