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seabeckind

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4. Amazing...

Reply to onehandle (Original post)

Mon Oct 21, 2013, 11:45 AM

Oct 2013

The part I find most disconcerting is that the collection of data has become the goal, rather than the purpose for the collection.

How in the world can anyone sift thru all that data in search of some information? Sure, after the fact they can point to exactly where the dots appeared but impossible to do ahead of time.

And even more so when they people who are actually being searched for know exactly what's going on...

and know exactly how to hide inside that system.

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France in the NSA's crosshair : phone networks under surveillance [View all] onehandle Oct 2013 OP

fascinant . . . ucrdem Oct 2013 #1

This makes me sick...scared....embarrassed.... loudsue Oct 2013 #2

More of the same basically. ucrdem Oct 2013 #3

I seriously doubt that the French government wastes its taxpayers' money collecting JDPriestly Oct 2013 #7

I wouldn't be so sure. M Sarkozy seems to have had no trouble deploying French intel ucrdem Oct 2013 #8

"They know how to figure out what is going on without all that paraphernalia." Blue_Tires Oct 2013 #9

The size of it is nowhere near the size of the US program. JDPriestly Oct 2013 #11

Amazing... seabeckind Oct 2013 #4

Computers are programmed to sift throught it I suspect. JDPriestly Oct 2013 #6

I remember that nut who tried to bomb an airliner going to Detroit Blue_Tires Oct 2013 #10

The problem is that we have outsourced and exported all the ordinary work, so people JDPriestly Oct 2013 #12

One giant protest outside the US embassy in Paris coming up! Crowman1979 Oct 2013 #5