Comment on Just a hunch that most social media platforms run off government servers
iamtanmay@wolfballs.com 2 years agoThey were able to hunt specific people and 2 degrees of separation, so friends of friends. That was what we know from Snowden, 10 years ago. Since then content has exploded by orders of magnitude, so its unlikely they can go to 3rd degree. Sources like Fbook, Big banks etc are easy for retrieving info on specific people. They had systems for such retrieval for 10 - 15 years. NSA likely have systems to feed this data and search via metadata or images.
Lauren Southern interviewed her ex-Aussie detective recently, who explained how they did this daily in Australia and other 5 eyes countries. Can find the link if you are interested. Should be on her Youtube channel from around the time of Convoy protests, so February I think.
squashkin@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
I am perhaps not communicating my point correctly or something.
There is more content being generated than they have the manpower to go through. I do not doubt they can retrieve stuff or sort through it. But they are unable to look at all of it. It seems like too much. But perhaps they have enough power to only look at a few people of interest.
iamtanmay@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
They will be limited in how many targets they can process. Snowden revealed 2 degrees at the time. So if a person interacts with 100 people over a year, that is upto 10,000 people to investigate for one person of interest. That's a lot of manhours for a single target. Likely that's the worst case, and they must also have ways to triage.
But you are right, they cannot spy on ALL of us, or even a significant number. Too much shit, lol
mayonesa@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
Snowden was most likely a Russian asset.