I hate to repeat a post, but the latest NSA revelations are more profound than I can describe

[joshcryer]

5. I actually think the metadata thing was them going out of their way.

I think any other country with the ability to spy on everything wouldn't even try to go after metadata, I think they'd go after everyfucking thing and do all sorts of behavior analysis on every single morsel of information.

The NSA collects, mind you, everything we write (yes, even this post here is being indexed, written language isn't that much, I did the math, it's ridiculously small), but they say that they only look at said data if the metadata gets triggered.

If true then they're going out of their way. I frankly don't think they're actually looking at metadata only.

edit: oops, seems, interestingly, you were one of the people to have read that post before, my bad. Still, others may want to see this, the NSA has effectively admitted to spying on the world and collecting every post by every human on the internet.