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[JoeyT]

15. Sure it does.

I hate cell phones and only use them when forced to and mine has 30 numbers in it. Assuming each of those have the same amount of numbers (All of them actually have far more) that's 900 people on the first hop, 27000 on the second.

That would mean they'd only need to think 75 people were of interest before they hit the 2 million mark. Two and a half people a day.

And those are absolute lowball numbers. I know people with better than two hundred numbers in their phone. At that rate it would take one person of interest every four days to hit the 2 million mark.

It would also depend on what they're calling a "hop". If a suspected terrorist called, for the sake of example, HP tech support, is everyone that called HP tech support now considered 2 hops from the terrorist? Given how much they're willing to stretch the laws, it wouldn't really surprise me.

FWIW at the rate of 30 numbers per cell phone, it would take pretty close to 10% of the number of terror suspects leveymg gave to spy on every man, woman, and child in the US. Twice that many suspects would be enough to spy on every man, woman, and child on Earth.