So who or what has the ability to go through everyone of them and check the content? What about codes, foreign languages, etc.?
No kidding.
“He couldn’t possibly wiretap everyone.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3029376/posts?page=4#4
Computers can scan them for addresses, recipients, contacts, etc.
But surely you do not suggest that the governments inefficiency in going through the stolen communications somehow makes it all better. Do you?
Nobody and nothing will do that. It sinks the argument that the NSA needs to collect this data. They are choking on data with the result that the govt cannot properly follow good leads like the Boston bombing.
OTOH I agree that Snowden's actions are simply illegal and he needs to be prosecuted. Maybe he will get a light sentence, I would argue that he does not deserve a heavy sentence for releasing that type of info. One has to ask how this release benefits the enemy? The enemy was doing pretty well despite the collection of all that crap.
Because when you do a google search, some human at google has to individually browse each website before they can give you an answer.
Because there aren’t any on the fly translators.
And I hate to break it to you but civilian encryption was probably toast about 10 years ago at the latest.