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the real danger with the NSA is Moore's Law. you can't do a greal deal with this data at the point of collection, but collecting it for a few decades, while Moo
by tessierashpool 12y ago
the real danger with the NSA is Moore's Law. you can't do a greal deal with this data at the point of collection, but collecting it for a few decades, while Moore's Law ramps up, will put you in an incredible position of overwhelming power at the end of that time.
look at how J. Edgar Hoover obsessively spied on American politicians, and imagine him doing so in 2035, backed up with decades of data, plus computing power as superior to ours as ours is superior to 1995's.
- LLWM 12y agoIndeed. It'd be foolish not to do it.