Posted on 06/20/2009 7:25:08 AM PDT by FromLori
Does anyone possibly believe that the NSA has the people, resources or time to read every email? This is absurd. Keyword and keyphrase scanning has been going on for a long time. They don’t give a rat’s ass about your email to granny or to your mistress; they care about terrorists and espionage and I mean the foreign terrorists, not BO Plenty’s definition of terrorists.
“Re-phrase your statement into English form.”
Learn to speak proper English and you might find it was.
“which I don’t believe”
Of course, you don’t. You are probably just another nitwit who thinks they know everything and the NSA couldn’t possibly have technologies you haven’t heard of.
Arrogance is the leading cause of our nation’s downfall.
Such has been deliberate in terms of all electronic/electric communications for AT LEAST 39 years.
I find it surprising that people don't understand they have been eavesdropping on us for as long as the technology was available to them and will continue
Indeed.
And they’ve had acres of computers to do it with for AT LEAST 39 years.
Wellllllllllllll from my TS-crypto years . . . I know otherwise.
Sure it’s automated.
Sure there’s a massive keyword list that everything is screened with.
Sure, you don’t know ever word on that keyword list.
Sure, silly comments can occasionally be amusing . . . when they are not sad or uninformed.
You are undoubtedly quite correct.
Well, based on my time dealing and working with TS-crypto as well as on the consumer end of a lot of data above TS I can say again, there are not the people, time and resources to have someone listen to every call or read every email. If there were or if the all of the lists of keyword phrases were that mundane there would be a lot more people being looked at and tracked. The ones that are tagged are id’d and correllated and some read but among the billions of emails and phone calls that occur almost all eventually fall into the bit-bucket.
Of course.
However, THE CAPACITY is there . . . and any target, phone number, addy, key words suddenly deemed worth a closer scrutiny . . . can certainly get it.
I assume you’d agree.
A friend of mine always closes his emails with
“PS: nuclear weapons”
Quite so.
However, some . . . poorly thinking people . . . would gloss over that and think they were home safe when they are far from it.
Has he had any interesting . . . queries . . . or incidents?
LOL.
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