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“Former Director of NSA Intelligence reveals the full extent of PRISM capabilities. MUST SEE!”

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“Another William Benny interview about PRISM and the NSA”

That one is.

What do They know about you? An interview with NSA analyst William Binney
Posted By Tim Cavanaugh On 11:34 PM 06/10/2013 In US | No Comments
The Daily Caller

"They can do textual processing at a rate of about 10 gigabits a second. What that means is about a million and a quarter 1,000-character emails a second. They’ve got something like 10 to 20 sites for this around the United States. So you can really see why they need to build something like Utah..."

That's 108 billion 1000-character e-mails per day, if the servers run nonstop--far more than the world's daily e-mails. Granted, that kind of work will be bogged down quite a bit, if many more millions of people using crypto-packages like Tor for communications and installing hardened, free, open-source operating systems (e.g., NetBSD, OpenBSD, etc.), other measures, and donating to those efforts.

Maybe many thousands more people will be hired for the intel data centers, and much more new equipment installed. Eventually, the data centers could employ half of our adult population, and that would make our economy really run (irony and humor there)! ;-)

In my insignificant opinion, we'd be better off fighting high-intensity, foreign wars again than trying to police everything so much. Evil assassins tend to get through, sometimes, regardless of efforts to watch them all. We should get 'em on their own turf, and stop letting them into our country. Trade concerns and fears have been getting heavily in the way of our US security.

"Try this link. It’s on The Blaze:

http://www.video.theblaze.com/media/video.jsp?content_id=27811905"

Thank you! Sorry, I didn't see the first time that it was a video instead of text. Haven't installed the necessary software for that kind of video, yet (replacing hardware components while busy around the place).

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