Six Million Wiretapped Conversation Per Month
One of the most noteworthy comments was that the Government had specified 60 Terabytes of monthly storage for digital versions of conversations. MONTHLY!
At about 11k per call, that is about 6 million conversations per month. (correct my math if you are better at computers!).
This is enormous.
People in the press are concerned that they are tapping the phones of people without just cause. What they are really doing is much, much worse.
In reality, they are tapping hundreds of thousands of lines all the time. This is KGB stuff.
Every call is stored digitally and indexed accurately, creating an archive that can be used for political purposes in the future. This is not reels of tape that would require massive effort to file through and might become useless quickly. It is highly indexed information that is being kept in storage. Two years from now, they could look into particular phone numbers to check in on cell and land lines.
It is cell and land lines
They are running filters on every conversation for Farsi and other languages in real time
This is domestic spying on a massive scale, not just a few wiretaps without a judge. This should be cause for impeachment.
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