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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?"
In traversing a hierarchical organization 3 jumps won't get you very far. If you look at the Army you call might look like this: Private calls Sergeant. Sergeant calls senior Sergeant. Senior Sergeant calls Lieutenant. So far you haven't made it out of a platoon of 30 people, a rather low echelon in the Army, and there are many platoons in any division.
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell