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Maybe? Only first day: A (suspect) calls B. B (becomes a suspect)calls C and D. C (becomes a suspect)calls E and F. D (becomes a suspect)calls G and H. ..
by jaclaz 9y ago
Maybe?
Only first day:
A (suspect) calls B.
B (becomes a suspect)calls C and D.
C (becomes a suspect)calls E and F.
D (becomes a suspect)calls G and H.
...
It is easy to quickly grow in number of wiretapped devices with a similar scheme, even after some deduplication, even "wrong numbers" will have become (temporarily) suspects and thus intercepted.
What is impressive is the direct ratio of 26/3,292,385, which is more or less 1/126,630, I guess we could call it the "needle in the haystack" approach.