On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 09:50:12 AM +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote: > > http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-collects-millions-of-e-mail-address-books-globally/2013/10/14/8e58b5be-34f9-11e3-80c6-7e6dd8d22d8f_story.html?wpisrc=al_national > > NSA collects millions of e-mail address books globally
I am very grateful to NSA. Really. I can't imagine what they could have done better than this: > During a single day last year, the NSA’s Special Source Operations > branch collected 444,743 e-mail address books from Yahoo, 105,068 > from Hotmail, 82,857 from Facebook, 33,697 from Gmail and 22,881 > from unspecified other providers, according to an internal NSA > PowerPoint presentation. Those figures, described as a typical daily > intake in the document, correspond to a rate of more than > 250 million a year. to prove that "quick & dirty" solutions like the percloud is needed NOW http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/personal-cloud-free-software (to know more about the percloud, and why it **is** needed in spite of FreedomBox etc... pls check the slideshow at http://per-cloud.com and my posts on the same topic at http://stop.zona-m.net/tag/percloud ) Marco -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.