We now know exactly what happened. NSA will have the tapes.

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49. Right

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While they don't record every single phone call they would have recorded every single phone call between the US and Russia and even more importantly particular phone calls are "lighted up" for recording by triggering particular words. Names like 'Obama', 'Clinton' or 'Trump' would be automatically tagged.

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They would have recorded every call between the US and Russia

Is what you said.

I am saying I doubt that. Some of them for sure.. every call I doubt that.

I just don't think it is technically possible. The amount of data required even just for all telecommunication between us and Russia is just prohibitive.

Again maybe I am wrong but based on my understanding of data and several of the articles posted on this thread I just don't buy it. Again records of all calls made I don't doubt for a second..the conversations of all of those calls just does not seem plausable at all certainly not for 30 days and beyond that it just becomes increasingly unlikely.

Three years ago Google's total storage was estimated at 10 exobytes, Google has more storage than the government for sure and I would be amazed if it wasn't many times more including Utah. Ten years ago the world's estimated data in voice calls was 65 exobytes. That was the same year the iPhone was released telecommunication traffic has exploded since then.

I just don't think recording the conversations of all calls from and to any first world country is plausable it is just too much data both to store and to transfer to that storage. That is the entirety of my argument.