” these people that think there are actual ears listening to 400 million peoples calls 24/7 are whack.”
Nobody anywhere says that. That’s a straw man. But what does happen is that they capture and store everything. And to that end, they are building the Utah center with the largest digital storage on earth.
This allows them to coerce, control, prosecute, and embarrass, anyone and everyone as they need. New political party forming? No problem to nip that in the bud. Congressman need to vote the way the party wants him to? It’s a snap.
Nobody anywhere i’ve ever heard suggests somebody is actively suggesting that someone is quite literally listening to every call and reading every email.
I imagine they do. Kinda like the surveillance can at 711 or the ATM.
And for the record, I am against a lot of the stuff people here want to defend as far as monitoring goes.
But people are actually willing to PAY to be monitored.
We want to monitor our kids so we PAY some jackass to use the GPS in their phone and tell us were they are.
You PAY for that stuff and are shocked that they are monitoring you with the same technology.
Did Anthony Wiener really think he would not be caught?
He was waggling his dick around on the internet street corner at young girls.
Here is where he got in trouble, he was actively being a predator, and its all on tape.
Heck he filmed it himself.
Booz Allen Hamilton, the company that employed Snowden, is already doing NSA’s dirty work and analyzing terabytes of data for trends and patterns, using G-d only knows what software, what company’s databases, I’d guess SQL code, and they are hiring engineers, paying them very well, and not outsourcing those jobs to Bangalore! (Hurray for American patriots!) With today’s hardware technology it’s a piece of cake to analyze huge amounts of data, isolating talk of boo and poo, and spitting out names and addresses of “alleged” suspects and “persons of interest”, you and me potentially. That is the cute little system that Edward Snowden betrayed. Obama’s legacy on top of Obamacare and Government Motors. Ain’t ya proud Snowden’s accusers?