NSA Leaker: I Had Authority 'To Wiretap Anyone'

Breitbart ^ | 6/9/13 | Tony Lee

[Nachum]

Edward Snowden, the 29-year-old who leaked information about the NSA's data surveillance programs, said he had the authority to wiretap even the president's email if he had a personal email address.

In an interview with Glenn Greenwald the UK Guardian posted on Sunday, Snowden said while the NSA surveillance programs were at first more narrowly tailored, the agency now "specifically targets the communications of everyone" and stores them because "it's the easiest and most efficient" way to achieve their ends. He said he had the authority to wiretap nearly everyone in the United States.

[null and void]

90 trillion emails are sent every year, which is about 300 million per day. How do you sort through that?

Roughly the same way you sort through massive amounts of geophone data to determine where on earth to drill for oil.

Only you can print all the money you need to buy all the computational power and data storage the job requires.

[bert]

-——How do you sort through that?-——

Simple, you discriminate and profile.

Then do it again.

When you find those fitting the target profile, attack.

[MestaMachine]

I know. Read more.

[Black Agnes]

"Only you can print all the money you need to buy all the computational power and data storage the job requires."

That's the whole idea. They're using our money to digitally stalk us. And using the database that SHOULD be used to ferret out REAL threats to public safety for their own political gains. And suppressing political dissent.

[null and void]

90 trillion emails are sent every year, which is about 300 million per day. How do you sort through that?

Let's say it takes 10,000 steps to sort a single email into a bin for content, addressee and source. With a single 1 GHz processor that would take 1/100,000 of a second. There are 8,640,000,000 hundred-thousanths of a second in a day.

300 million would be done before lunch.

Don't like my numbers? Plug in your own.

[B4Ranch]

>>What strikes me odd, is he’s 29 years old. How do you get such a highly sensitive job right off the bat like that?<<

If you exhibit unusual comprehension of a task and have unique ideas on how to accomplish it you could easily find yourself in charge of the entire operation if your superiors agree with your line of thinking.

[Gene Eric]

>> Roughly the same way you sort through massive amounts of geophone data to determine where on earth to drill for oil.

You’re talking about static data.

There’s no way one person can continuously receive, process, and analyze an aggregate of all the data being processed in every central office, mail server, regional routers, etc. It’s a fantasy to think that’s possible.

[CodeToad]

The NSA uses continuous indexing to find associations between things. However, a person can also query all that data and ask for specific things. Of course no person can sort through much data at all by themselves. Often queries take days or weeks to perform as all queries are queued according to priority.

[null and void]

Do you seriously think it has to be one person??????

Wow. Just wow.

[miserare]

I hope he did as you suggest here, and I hope he’s got the goods on Hillary Clinton.

She was soooo smug about stealing the FBI files, and she’s been blackmailing people ever since.

I want to see it all come back to bite her on her ample butt.

[Gene Eric]

>> Wow. Just wow.

Get over yourself. There's only one person making an accusation.

>> "He said he had the authority to wiretap nearly everyone in the United States."

He could not possibly wiretap everyone.

You, like the rest of us, have little if any knowledge of the surveillance technology in question. The only material details we have are the young man's assertions.