On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 1:14 PM, John Young <jya@pipeline.com> wrote:

NSA statement today on Missions, Authorties, Oversight, Partnerships:

http://cryptome.org/2013/08/nsa-13-0809.pdf

some interesting stats, also interesting copy / paste behavior: "Scope and Scale of NSA Collection According to figures published by a major tech provider, the Internet carries 1,826 Petabytes of information per day. In its foreign intelligence mission, NSA touches about 1.6% of that. However, of the 1.6% of the data, only 0.025% is actually selected for review. The net effect is that NSA DQDO\VWVORRNDWRIWKHZRUOG¶VWUDIILFLQFRQGXFWLQJWKHLUPLVVLRQ± WKDW¶VOHVVWKDQRQH part in a million. Put another way, if a standard basketball court represented the global FRPPXQLFDWLRQVHQYLURQPHQW16$¶VWRWDO collection would be represented by an area smaller than a dime on that basketball court." to read: """ Scope and Scale of NSA Collection According to figures published by a major tech provider, the Internet carries 1,826 Petabytes of information per day. In its foreign intelligence mission, NSA touches about 1.6% of that. However, of the 1.6% of the data, only 0.025% is actually selected for review. The net effect is that NSA analysts look at 0.00004% of the world's traffic in conducting their mission - that's less than one part in a million. Put another way, if a standard basketball court represented the global communications environment, NSA's total collection would be represented by an area smaller than a dime on that basketball court. """ again we see the fallacy of "not a search/collection until reviewed by an analyst."...