NSA surveillance program reaches ‘into the past’ to retrieve, replay phone calls
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#2"At the request of U.S. officials, The Washington Post is withholding details that could be used to identify the country where the system is being employed or other countries where its use was envisioned"
Therefore there is no point to the article.
Re: NSA surveillance program reaches ‘into the past’ to retrieve, replay phone calls
#3Sadly, it seems that the majority have become inured to the offensive over reach of agencies such as NSA, GCHQ, etc.
The only way to play it as if the country where the system is being employed is your own.
Yes, I said it... I wouldn't be surprised to learn that the aforementioned country is the USA.
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#4I posted this spreadsheet in another thread to give an idea of the cost of storing all of the nation's calls.
I figured an annual cost of about $11 million.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqWtA_3af-R0dE5...
(the spreadsheet allows editing, so you all can play with the numbers).
Re: NSA surveillance program reaches ‘into the past’ to retrieve, replay phone calls
#5"At the request of U.S. officials, The Washington Post is withholding details that could be used to identify the country where the system is being employed or other countries where its use was envisioned" Therefore there is no point to the article.
The status quo is then restored.
All this article is is chest-pounding by the US to warn potential competitors in the global sphere of influence.
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#6"At the request of U.S. officials, The Washington Post is withholding details that could be used to identify the country where the system is being employed or other countries where its use was envisioned" Therefore there is no point to the article.
Raise your hand if you think its US domestic soil, if not now, how about in the future...
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#7I posted this spreadsheet in another thread to give an idea of the cost of storing all of the nation's calls. I figured an annual cost of about $11 million. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqWtA_3af-R0dE5... (the spreadsheet allows editing, so you all can play with the numbers).
What does it cost to transcribe All VOICE calls ->TEXT for faster analysis, apply DEEP learning to it, and apply a graph of Everyone bigger than Facebook to these patterns?
Re: NSA surveillance program reaches ‘into the past’ to retrieve, replay phone calls
#8I posted this spreadsheet in another thread to give an idea of the cost of storing all of the nation's calls. I figured an annual cost of about $11 million. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqWtA_3af-R0dE5... (the spreadsheet allows editing, so you all can play with the numbers).
What does it cost to transcribe All VOICE calls ->TEXT for faster analysis, apply DEEP learning to it, and apply a graph of Everyone bigger than Facebook to these patterns?
I was just talking about the cost of storage, not acquisition or analysis.
Re: NSA surveillance program reaches ‘into the past’ to retrieve, replay phone calls
#9I posted this spreadsheet in another thread to give an idea of the cost of storing all of the nation's calls. I figured an annual cost of about $11 million. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqWtA_3af-R0dE5... (the spreadsheet allows editing, so you all can play with the numbers).
Brewster Kahle of archive.org ran the numbers last year as well:
https://blog.archive.org/2013/06/15/cost-to-store-all-us-pho...
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AuqlWHQKlooOdGJ...
Re: NSA surveillance program reaches ‘into the past’ to retrieve, replay phone calls
#10I posted this spreadsheet in another thread to give an idea of the cost of storing all of the nation's calls. I figured an annual cost of about $11 million. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqWtA_3af-R0dE5... (the spreadsheet allows editing, so you all can play with the numbers).
That's remarkably cheap.