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NSA Admits Searching "3 Hops" From Suspects
New submitter cpitman writes "In a house hearing Wednesday the NSA admitted that it could query not only a suspect's records, but also perform up to a 'three hop query'. Considering that most people in the world are separated by under 6 degrees of separation, the NSA essentially claims that any single suspect gives them rights to investigate a large chunk of the world's population. With the terror watch list having over 700,000 names, just how many times has Kevin Bacon been investigated?"
Oh I dunno. If a terrorist suspects real-estate agents daughter's mechanic fixes your car don't you think the NSA should have that information?
I'm sure the NSA mentioned this sort of case in its request to the FISA court which then approved it.
"So what does that make us?"
"ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! Which is what you are about to become!"
Well, if there's D or an R next to a person's name on the ballot, don't fucking vote for them for starters.
What if the fucking Real Estate Agent knows the same mechanic her daughter uses? Use your fucking head.
On the Oregon Cost born and raised, On the beach is where I spent most of my days
there was no effective oversize of these programs.
Actually, I think this programme is demonstrably oversized ;)
Patent litigation: A doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction... in which everyone seems willing to push the button
They're angry that they were lied to. They hate that. Most of them couldn't give a rat's ass about the actual data gathering.
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Silence is a state of mime.