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spahl on July 31, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: XKeyscore: NSA program collects 'nearly everything...

But this was written in 2008. Storage capacity could/must have increased massively since then.

mpyne on July 31, 2013 [–]

But so has the volume of data that NSA would have to retain.

lukifer on July 31, 2013 | [–]

...and so have the compression and filtering tech, I'm sure. If you strip out most attachments, the average email message is incredibly tiny when gzipped.

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