Quote Originally Posted by maks View Post
tempora collected and analyzed 600 million conversations a day if this had dropped in the 1980's it would have, at very least, ended the administration that authorized it and the agency that executed it
data cables have been tapped since ww2. the chinese and russians have taps on our data cables, not just the usa and britain. there are even russian submarines designed specifically to go place shit on undersea cables.

this was all known before snowden.