If you are saying the NSA is blackmailing the judicial or executive branch, this is as large as or larger than what has been released so far.

And if you'll let us assume Snow is not a false flag operation.

Then a leak would surely have come forward illustrating this.

I am pretty sure if your boss left his password on a post it on your desk and did not explicitly tell you to use it, and then you login as him using that password, that you would be liable under the Computer Fraud Act.

They are spendable. They were spent (transferred) to the FBI.

Remember, the only legislated privacy we have is the privacy of consumer video rentals.

This is an important legislation. Its motivation for passing is also an important thing to consider.

Stop. You are making me feel old, I remember writing code like that. (Which compiled)

sudo mod parent up

(Third feature is minimizing bandwidth)

You can easily design a system with good anonymity and low-latency: arrange your network like a daisy chain. Timing and statistical attacks are useless when SNR is that low.

Also, remember back in the day when people in power were afraid to interviewed by 60 minutes. Do we have any real journalism like this anymore? And how do I support this journalism?

Guys, be more creative:

"We're only targeting fulltext of 60 Americans" = "We have 60 full-time-equivalent analysts (3 shifts) targeting Americans. Each human can only target one person at a time, computers do pre-targeting so humans only need to listen to one minute of speech to make a snap judgement"

Result 60*1440*365 = 30 million Americans are targeted per year

>> Remember how social networks were going to transform the advertising industry because they'd tailor ads not to context or to your web browsing history, but to the innate preferences you express through interactions and relationships with friends

The major of online advertising spend is based on URLs and Keywords. And a "content network" campaign (URL-based) is already hard enough to set up.

Now I have to design my marketing strategy for online medical certifications based on (is a republican) (upper income bracket) ("likes" hospitals) (shops at Apple store)... forget about it.

Your personal account of being on the receiving end of hatred for the IRS does not necessarily legitimize the IRS

How many websites have you seen that say "Sorry, your Internet Service Provider provides substandard service, please call OTHERPROVIDER at 1-800-XXX-XXXX to upgrade and access our website correctly / EOL"?

None.

On the other hand, over thousands of people and many years the overall theft adds up to...

A tipping point adoption of the electric car

Organ?

You can collect two years worth of sexts in a week?

The blackmail value against the future leaders of America easily exceeds $3b.