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The numbers seem way off and too keystone cop to be true. 20 terabytes is not large for the NSA.

It can search BCC?? Only the sender has them. so everything would have to be collected at each ISP (which isn't impossible).. but I think the guardian has been trolled.



If you're using Gmail then Google sends your email, so Google knows your BCC lines.


Keep in mind that this was from 2008.


That's 20TB per site. Who knows how many collection sites they have?


Says in the full slides on guardian over 500 sites (this was 2008), I wonder how many they have now..


I'm calling this a troll.


If you or I was in charge of the NSA there would not be a visual basic interface or a select foreignness dropdown. I'm calling bullshit on this.


In the PRISM related documents they used that exact term, "foreignness".

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/06/bombsh...


Wait, are you talking and agreeing with yourself?




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