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Originally Posted by buggyone
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It is really amazing how many people think (1) that NSA is actually listening to their phone calls and (2) that this is something put into place by the Obama administration. 
It has been going on since at least 2001. Your individual calls are not being monitored! |
Don't be too sure. Metadata may be more telling than content in any case. But the new Utah data center with 5 billion terabytes should be able to search 5 years of ALL domestic communications with Google-like search capabilities. I was actual surprised to see all my Google searches back to 2005 -
https://history.google.com/history/.
I think this is going to end badly. It seems to me they pushed him too far and he released details of US hacking of China to ensure he'd get cooperation in Hong Kong. He seems very intelligent and has prepare well for the inevitable. He knows his future prospects and he's not coming back to face potential execution (in his words, the country is worth dying for). I assume he's made plans for release of further documents regardless of what happens to him. I can even imagine a finale with suicide and mass distribution of whatever information he has.