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Definitely. Remember when the Snowden documents disclosed the Utah facilities keeping ~5 years of every communication record of every person, processed into the

Definitely. Remember when the Snowden documents disclosed the Utah facilities keeping ~5 years of every communication record of every person, processed into the most actionable metadata, and the related capabilities to search and correlate the content, interrelationships, and signals implicit across those communications? This is something that could only be targeted decades ago. Now its cost-admissible to run at scale - and to do so adaptively to improve the methods.

viivaux 8y ago
There was a time when your comments here would be discussed and generally agreed with instead of blindly downvoted and removed. Come to think of it, I can't remember the last time HN had a good discussion about US censorship and surveillance. Weird.
- dang 8y ago
  Would you please stop posting flamewar comments to HN? They only lower the quality of this site even further.
  - viivaux 8y ago
    There was no legitimate reason to remove this man's comments. He provided a legitimate perspective, and wasn't flaming anyone or being rude. Defending him was your job, not mine.
    - dang 8y ago
      Defending someone is no reason to break the site guidelines. If you keep doing that, we will ban you. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19187633 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19187633 was particularly unacceptable.
- alexandercrohde 8y ago
  Well as somebody who is very anti US-monitoring, let me help you understand: Your comments are so unproductive (i.e. emotional/irrelevant/us-vs-them) that they actually undermine the cause you say you're concerned about. You give the rest of us a bad name.
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  - viivaux 8y ago
    Oh cool, glad to hear it! I certainly don't hear the standpoint here much. Maybe you could show me how to make a comment that's actually productive, maybe you have examples of your own? I don't even know if you can read this, as it looks as if my comment was entirely deleted. Anyway I sure fucking love getting patronised, super cool way to keep "the cause" alive, "tech dude".

viivaux 8y ago

There was a time when your comments here would be discussed and generally agreed with instead of blindly downvoted and removed. Come to think of it, I can't remember the last time HN had a good discussion about US censorship and surveillance. Weird.

dang 8y ago
Would you please stop posting flamewar comments to HN? They only lower the quality of this site even further.
- viivaux 8y ago
  There was no legitimate reason to remove this man's comments. He provided a legitimate perspective, and wasn't flaming anyone or being rude. Defending him was your job, not mine.
  - dang 8y ago
    Defending someone is no reason to break the site guidelines. If you keep doing that, we will ban you. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19187633 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19187633 was particularly unacceptable.
alexandercrohde 8y ago
Well as somebody who is very anti US-monitoring, let me help you understand: Your comments are so unproductive (i.e. emotional/irrelevant/us-vs-them) that they actually undermine the cause you say you're concerned about. You give the rest of us a bad name.
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- viivaux 8y ago
  Oh cool, glad to hear it! I certainly don't hear the standpoint here much. Maybe you could show me how to make a comment that's actually productive, maybe you have examples of your own? I don't even know if you can read this, as it looks as if my comment was entirely deleted. Anyway I sure fucking love getting patronised, super cool way to keep "the cause" alive, "tech dude".