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I'd bet a lot of money that the NSA didn't just turn off their servers and sit their twiddling their thumbs after the Snowden leaks.
by remus 6y ago
I'd bet a lot of money that the NSA didn't just turn off their servers and sit their twiddling their thumbs after the Snowden leaks.
- wahern 6y agoI think the intimation is that it's not only the NSA or the United States building such databases, and the assumption that the NSA would have the largest database may no longer be credible--not because they stopped gathering data but because they were surpassed.
- glenstein 6y agoThat's an unfair caricature. The steelman version of that argument is that China has likely amassed a more robust global surveillance database (to the extent that that's even the right word to use) than the U.S.
- 8note 6y agoI imagine they don't even need to. All they need to do is gain access to the American databases
- glenstein 6y agoI think it's just true in a literal sense that China has constructed it's own surveillance system that under any metric would be larger than that of the United States or any other nation.