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Really, really far ahead. Just imagine the infrastructure they have right now collecting all of the internet activity in the entire US through fiber backbones.
by usednet 5y ago
Really, really far ahead. Just imagine the infrastructure they have right now collecting all of the internet activity in the entire US through fiber backbones. I remember reading that Britain some years ago was collecting 200+ PB of data daily and storing it for a month. That blew my mind, one can only imagine what they’re doing here in the US.
- Mister_X 5y agoStoring data accomplishes nothing unless the agency involved is organizing, collating and sharing that data with others. Do you really believe "they" have the time and money to do that with that much data, considering 99.999% of it is dross? I sure don't.
- usednet 5y agoYes, absolutely I do. They have protocol analyzers that reverse engineer wire traffic to put it into semistructured form for processing with MapReduce.