[cryptography] NSA Today on Missions, Authorities, Oversight, Partnershps

[Albin Olsson]

On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 12:59 AM, coderman <coderman at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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."...
>

Also, only 20 percent of that basketball court is web, email, IM and
other consumer data excluding file sharing, gaming and video. So if we
adjust the figure they "touch" 8 percent of our sensitive
communications. Assuming the figures are true in the first place.