Well, that's a suggestion you're imputing, not that I'm making...
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Replying to @charlie_savage @MiekeEoyang
It turns on the unknown of what the average number of coms in an MCT is /2
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Replying to @charlie_savage @MiekeEoyang
If X=10, total annual 702 collection was 305.79M; upstream was 50.35M or 16.5% If X=100, total was 544.29M; upstream 288.85M 53.1% etc /3
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Replying to @charlie_savage @MiekeEoyang
Yes making this doubly weedy, these
#s are of historical interest only anyway bc ending "about" collection sharply reduced MCT intake /42 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @charlie_savage
But aren't there MCTs in both PRISM & Upstream? Any reason to believe the % of MCTs vs. SCTs is different between the two?
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Replying to @MiekeEoyang
I don't understand why there would be MCTs gathered via the Prism system and haven't ever heard that suggestion. Why do you think that?
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Replying to @charlie_savage
Because if you're collecting from a particular account those people have chains of communications in them.
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Replying to @MiekeEoyang @charlie_savage
For example, if I'm the target &
@peterswire forwards me an email from@Timothy_Edgar, then NSA can collect an MCT w/Tim's coms from me.2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
it has not been my understanding that routine email chains were what we were talking about when we talked about MCTs but maybe i'm wrong.
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Replying to @charlie_savage @MiekeEoyang and
from PCLOB 702 reportpic.twitter.com/f5sYRIbWTU
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Swooping in to observe how meaningless that MCT term is, insofar as it actually describes several collection methods, not content collected.
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Replying to @emptywheel @charlie_savage and
But that's also important bc the problems w/upstream backdoor searches actually exist for PRISM too, especially considering cloud content.
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