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I don't care about if it's two hops or three; they're collecting a metric shit-tonne of info. It's like really large amounts of money: if a corporation makes a
by Kapura 13y ago
I don't care about if it's two hops or three; they're collecting a metric shit-tonne of info. It's like really large amounts of money: if a corporation makes a million dollars or five million dollars, it's all just numbers on a page for me. This "revelation" doesn't change the game at all, because I know that there's still a lot of shit that the NSA isn't telling us about their activities. Feels like hit bait (and it's worked).
- marshray 13y agoRegardless of the general concepts of lies, collect-it-all, and "metric shit-tonne of info", the difference between two hops or three is literally "exponentially more".
- j_baker 13y agoThe difference between 2 and 3 hops is immense. The size of the data they collect grows exponentially between hops.
- Kapura 13y agoIt's not lost on me that it's a lot more. Trust me; I've done math before. But really, once a dataset is sufficiently huge, it's just "big." Could it be bigger? Sure. But it'll still be big. Again, five million dollars is five times more than a million dollars, but it's still just a bunch of money. To put it another way, it'd be foolish to assume that there are limits on how much data they're collecting. Those limits on what can be collected and from whom probably exist somewhere, but it should not surprise anybody any more that the NSA is collecting x data from y userset. We're in the future now; you should operate under the assumption that any and all data is being logged by somebody, and that the walls that keep that data from others are only so strong.
- j_baker 13y agoThe comparison isn't between one million and 5 million. The comparison is between one million and 5 trillion dollars.