I agree in principle. There might be some blow-back with regard to metadata that they can now legally (under their definition) track. Let's do the math to see

I agree in principle. There might be some blow-back with regard to metadata that they can now legally (under their definition) track. Let's do the math to see if that would even be possible: * 144 billion emails per day in the U.S. * Average email size is 75 kb. * Works out to about 10 petabytes/day. That facility they're building in Utah is exascale, so the computational burden isn't that much if they're simply looking at metadata. Obviously, decryption is more complicated. Last I checked, a MW/year runs about $1m with long term agreements (old number; probably $2m now). Assuming a budget on the order of billions, that isn't a huge hurdle for a government snoop to clear.