@normative @emptywheel Are the keys accompanied by the content they encode? If not, they are useless alone.
@BoloBoffin That was the context. But the phone metadata is the Dewey system to get to the 1s and 0s, no? @normative
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@emptywheel@normative Oh, I see, you're saying 1s and 0s are likely content. But the metadata would be stored that way, too, I think. -
@BoloBoffin That's what I thought at 1st. But note he talks abt stuff not being in particular order. Call metadata would be, no?@normative -
@emptywheel@normative So that would happen in Boundless Informant, right? As I understand it, that's where all NSA paths lead. -
@BoloBoffin@emptywheel Boundless is basically just a fancy spreadsheet. -
@normative@emptywheel I had visions of your phone pulling in Google, Facebook, Twitter accounts, and BI being where you link them. OK. -
@BoloBoffin@emptywheel As I understood the description, BI is just like a tally system; doesn't give you access to any databases. -
@normative@BoloBoffin@emptywheel This convo almost makes me wish twitter was in#prism so it would be stored (but not collected!) by#nsa -
@wegianshooter@BoloBoffin@emptywheel Library of Congress is on it. - 1 more reply
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