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I understand your point but you might be missing NSA view on this. Their goal is (apparently) to source as much data as possible and, although breaking a jaw do
by iaskwhy 13y ago
I understand your point but you might be missing NSA view on this. Their goal is (apparently) to source as much data as possible and, although breaking a jaw doesn't sound expensive as a one-off, it gets extremely expensive when doing it for a given percentage of the world population. In our own language, it's not scalable. And neither are the other options. Global automation of the gathering of personal data is much cheaper and much more useful (again, apparently).
- zacinbusiness 13y agoThat's a fair point. Really the whole thing bugs me. It seems they could be solving real problems with all those cycles.
- smackfu 13y ago>Global automation of the gathering of personal data is much cheaper and much more useful (again, apparently). And completely legal (from their perspective), whereas attacking foreign citizens gets into grey areas.
- iaskwhy 13y agoWhile I agree with you, I don't think that's a grey area from their perspective either. The CIA has done it with the support of other governments.