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The difference between 2 and 3 hops is immense. The size of the data they collect grows exponentially between hops.

• Kapura 13y ago
  It'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 ago
    The comparison isn't between one million and 5 million. The comparison is between one million and 5 trillion dollars.