ONCE AGAIN, they're clutching at their pearls and swooning about losing the (straw man) metadata. They think we're stoopid. Required reading, NSA Surveillance

ONCE AGAIN, they're clutching at their pearls and swooning about losing the (straw man) metadata. They think we're stoopid. Required reading, NSA Surveillance: Exploring the Geographies of Internet Interception Andrew Clement Faculty of Information, University of Toronto https://archive.org/download/GeographiesOfInternetInterceptionAndrewClement/geographies%20of%20internet%20interception%20andrew%20clement.PDF https://archive.org/download/GeographiesOfInternetIntercepti... Might be a mix of hearsay but some pieces of the puzzle are becoming clearer. Skip to the section on 'NSA Splitters' and ask yourself, if they had drop-in access to the baseband circuits, qould they already be able to intercept the Telcom providers' streams that gather the data that is now part of the disclosure programs? And even if the links are encrypted, keys can be leaked. Telcos are finally 'off the hook'.