[LINK] What the NSA can do with “big data”

Jim Birch planetjim at gmail.com
Wed Jun 12 17:15:45 AEST 2013


What the NSA can do with “big data”

The NSA can't capture everything that crosses the Internet—but doesn't need
to.

...
Let's set aside what US law allows the NSA to do for a moment, and focus on
some other laws that constrain the intelligence agency: the laws of physics
and Moore's Law, to start with. The NSA has the capability to collect
massive amounts of data on traffic over switched phone networks and the
Internet and has had that capability for some time, thanks to cooperation
from the phone companies themselves, deep packet inspection and packet
capture hardware, and other signals monitoring capabilities. But they
haven't had the ability to truly capture and store that data en masse and
retain it indefinitely until relatively recently, due in part to work
started at Google and Yahoo.
...

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/06/what-the-nsa-can-do-with-big-data/



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