Um. Interesting point. Come to think of it, it might actually make a lot more sense to be able to run those risk models offline. That way, you can always refine them later. Better safe than sorry. Given Variola's little factoid, even if they aren't grabbing everything now, they probably will soon. I'd also point out that imaging technology (eg, CCDs) are moving like a bat out of hell, though I'm not sure of the relevance vz Cypherpunks. Riffing a bit...with effectively inifinte storage capacity and high-density imaging arrays, it might be possible for a database search to include parameters such as "brown eyes"..."1mm zit pockmark on left cheek", and then a search is run on all Metrocard terminals through all city subway's security cameras in the world. Anyone see Wim Wender's "The End of the World"? BOUNTY BEAR! -TD

From: Eugen Leitl <eugen@leitl.org> To: cypherpunks@al-qaeda.net Subject: Re: Faster than Moore's law Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 08:55:11 +0200

On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 09:31:45PM -0700, Major Variola (ret) wrote:

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Just want to remind y'all that drive capacity has increased *faster* than semiconductor throughput, which has an 18 month doubling time.

Yes. Also, human-generated traffic (the relevant part: which email you write, which sites you browse) has an upper bound for each meat person. Even if one doesn't have access to your ISP's logs this should be enough to identify (not necessarily link to a specific fed-issued ID, though) almost every person within a session.

I think it is safe to assume that every relevant traffic which is in clear is being recorded, some or all of it forever.

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