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Th1onein

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13. Nope.

Reply to Jarla (Reply #5)

Fri Jun 21, 2013, 10:50 PM

Jun 2013

"*I am guessing that "facility" means something like a telephone company or an email provider like Google."

This is incorrect. They (NSA) were talking about having the legislature pass laws so that the telecoms would be required to keep the communications in their databases longer, instead of the NSA keeping the database of calls. So, it's the NSA database.

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NSA has a DATABASE of CONTENT [View all] Th1onein Jun 2013 OP

Of course. That's why they need yottabytes of data storage space. HooptieWagon Jun 2013 #1

but but, they are international numbers, they are really long right? right? Monkie Jun 2013 #7

And porn. HooptieWagon Jun 2013 #8

oh, those radicalized Chechen muslims with uncles married to the CIA agents daughters? Monkie Jun 2013 #9

LOL! It's all very funny. Except that it's not. jazzimov Jun 2013 #20

Its not just Snowden. HooptieWagon Jun 2013 #21

was it Feinstein who used the word "database" first? grasswire Jun 2013 #2

This will be the newest database Go Vols Jun 2013 #3

Damn those public outcries, see what happens! allin99 Jun 2013 #15

K & R !!! WillyT Jun 2013 #4

What if these "content repositories" only contain content from people they've previously "targeted"? Jarla Jun 2013 #5

hard to tell, on the one hand they mention content, on the other they speak of location Monkie Jun 2013 #10

Nope. Th1onein Jun 2013 #13

What do you think "facility" means then? Jarla Jun 2013 #17

I think they've got facilities already, and are building one, almost finished, in Utah Th1onein Jun 2013 #19

Wishful thinking! Th1onein Jun 2013 #27

Say it ain't so! n/t Catherina Jun 2013 #6

Over at BoilingFrogs.com, Sibel Edmond's website, truedelphi Jun 2013 #11

+1 Quantess Jun 2013 #22

I see a lot of supposition.... jazzimov Jun 2013 #12

None of this is supposition. Their own words hang them. Th1onein Jun 2013 #14

How about the fact that Nuclear Unicorn Jun 2013 #18

Have you even read jazzimov Jun 2013 #16

I've read them ALL. Have you? And, this is no place for ad hominem attacks. Th1onein Jun 2013 #25

Ad hominem is all many people have. truedelphi Jun 2013 #26

That is low. Octafish Jun 2013 #28

I got the library shit also. nm rhett o rick Jun 2013 #23

Sounds like the KGB! Rosa Luxemburg Jun 2013 #24

Bingo! Octafish Jun 2013 #29

I'll say it again: it's Google for Tyrants. n/t backscatter712 Jun 2013 #30