I was under the impression from Q that the NSA is monitoring and recording ALL forms of communication. Well, maybe not smoke signals and the like, but all forms of communication using 'modern' technology.
Sure, but because there's so much raw data, one has to do something awfully suspicious in order to collect the gaze of actual people at the NSA. Legal precedent must be satisfied. There's just too much data.
Oh, you're not wrong. What you're missing is that there's got to be a reason to do it and a general direction to take it in. The NSA is binded in certain ways that other arms of the intelligence apparatus aren't.
Well if these people are known to the gaze of the NSA, they're probably being tracked on all fronts, even their in game VoIP and the like. Who they're talking to is quickly learned and those people are also tracked.
If you are coming at this point from the "they only ever communicate through game coms so they're not flagged"
Then maybe you're right. But I don't put anything past these organizations. More data means more budget and that's the name of the game. VoIP is easy to intercept and analyze they do it all the time. I can't believe that it accounts for a significant amount of internet traffic relatively speaking.
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I was under the impression from Q that the NSA is monitoring and recording ALL forms of communication. Well, maybe not smoke signals and the like, but all forms of communication using 'modern' technology.
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Sure, but because there's so much raw data, one has to do something awfully suspicious in order to collect the gaze of actual people at the NSA. Legal precedent must be satisfied. There's just too much data.
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If you know what your looking for, it's relatively simple to query a database with keywords or whatever advanced technology the NSA uses.
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BILL BINNEY ...
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Oh, you're not wrong. What you're missing is that there's got to be a reason to do it and a general direction to take it in. The NSA is binded in certain ways that other arms of the intelligence apparatus aren't.
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Well if these people are known to the gaze of the NSA, they're probably being tracked on all fronts, even their in game VoIP and the like. Who they're talking to is quickly learned and those people are also tracked.
If you are coming at this point from the "they only ever communicate through game coms so they're not flagged"
Then maybe you're right. But I don't put anything past these organizations. More data means more budget and that's the name of the game. VoIP is easy to intercept and analyze they do it all the time. I can't believe that it accounts for a significant amount of internet traffic relatively speaking.