[Steve in CO]

I doubt very seriously the NSA is using Cray mainframes any longer, as that wonderful company (after the founder was sadly killed in a car accident here in CO) was bought out by SUN (I think). More than likely the NSA is using clustered server racks, and large multiprocesser servers (like SGI Origins, etc), but hey, I'm just guessing as an IT guy.

As a matter of fact, the only Cray 'supercomputer,' I've seen was on display in the lobby of a building on an Air Force base here; not plugged in of course. I believe it was a Cray YMP-2. State of the art circa 1989 or so.

PS To all of the other posters here who are knee-jerking themselves over this; what exactly about the word warrantless do you not understand? Get a warrant (FISA allows 72 hour retroactive monitoring-warrants) or have congress change the law. It ain't rocket science folks.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Get a warrant (FISA allows 72 hour retroactive monitoring-warrants) or have congress change the law.

Are you suggesting this for data mining, too? If so, how would FISA work? Thanks.

[oceanview]

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