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What I want to know is how they guess which 0.001% of signals or internet traffic is actually worthwhile to keep? The biggest nation states could conceivably st
by stephen_g 1y ago
What I want to know is how they guess which 0.001% of signals or internet traffic is actually worthwhile to keep? The biggest nation states could conceivably store about 1 year’s worth of internet traffic right now, but then they also need to store whatever other signals intelligence they’re gathering for analysis, so it will be less than a single years worth.
But almost all that data is going to turn out to be useless if or when they gain quantum ability to decrypt it, and even the stuff that could be useful now gets less useful with every month it stays encrypted. Stuff that is very useful intelligence now could be absolutely useless in five years…
- Razengan 1y ago2000 years in the future people will know which porn you slobbed it to.
- snowwrestler 1y ago> What I want to know is how they guess which 0.001% of signals or internet traffic is actually worthwhile to keep? By observing DNS lookups in centralized taps like room 641a at AT&T.
- breakingcups 1y agoAll of Tor that can be hoovered up seems like a worthwhile investment.
- PeterisP 1y agoIf you discard all major video streaming sites (including adult entertainment) then you probably can get most of the way there; you're probably mostly interested in text communication and actual user data, not the video content which is so much larger than that.