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Why is the commentry on this topic always braindead?

The article states that there is a query interface using the email address as the key. But Where does it say that every single email/webpage from every single person is being collected? Such a task would be technically impossible. It seems far more likely that it's querying a database of pretargeted people.

There is so much hysterical nonsense regarding this topic. The cancer of conspiracy theory spreads.



> Such a task would be technically impossible.

Arthur C. Clarke's first law of technology: 'When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.'


The raw slides are included in the article. You should consider looking at them.


Yeah, I've read them. Where do they say that every single email/webpage from every single person is being collected?


It's nowhere in the slides.




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