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The judgment revealed that the NSA was collecting up to 56,000 wholly US internet communications per year in the three years until the court intervene
by mikegioia 13y ago
The judgment revealed that the NSA was collecting up to
56,000 wholly US internet communications per year in the
three years until the court intervened. Bates also
rebuked the agency for misrepresenting the true scope of
a major collection program for the third time in three
years.
This "judgement" showed they were only collecting 56,000 emails per year? Give me a break. Even if their system for collecting foreigners' emails was actually trying to only collect foreigners' emails, I would whole-heartedly expect them to nab more than 56k/year accidentally.
I think if you dig in, you'll find it's a few orders of magnitude higher.
- mcphilip 13y agoMy cynical take: 56,000 out of how many samples? This number is meaningless without context. I'd expect that an audit would be over a small sample of the total data collected.
- rayiner 13y ago> I think if you dig in, you'll find it's a few orders of magnitude higher. Based on what? If the goal is just to capture all the wholly domestic communication possible, why engage in this elaborate charade of procedures that are done in secret and not publicly visible anyway?
- jacquesm 13y ago> Based on what? Common sense and experience with mail servers.
- rhizome 13y agoOccam says that they lied to the judge because even they would have a problem with it. Turns out, they were right. This is why they keep it so secret: they knew or suspected nobody else would allow them to do it they way they were.
- TallGuyShort 13y agoI also wonder what the units are, because I don't know what they mean by a "communication". 56,000... packets? sessions? accounts? physical connections? edit: emails?