Anybody who believes that the NSA is just collecting "metadata" is just stupid. Let me say that again - stupid.
They have the money to buy the disk drives, the processors and the software to record EVERYTHING that goes over the wire. Everything. Not just the start time / stop time / phone number / cell tower / etc from your cell phone calls. EVERYTHING.
If they can (and they CAN) - they will. And they are.
The Quantum Quest for a Revolutionary Computer (Jeff Bezo’s “Infinity Machine”)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3121505/posts
Qualcomm Is Working on Eight-Core 64-Bit System-on-Chip.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3117882/posts
>> the NSA’s meta-data collection program
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> Anybody who believes that the NSA is just collecting “metadata” is just stupid. Let me say that again - stupid.
On that topic, you should watch Snowden’s interview:
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f93_1390833151