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In reply to the discussion: Dear mother of Gawd, I am tired of arguing with rocks [View all]randome
(34,845 posts)Do you understand what would happen if the NSA did not have a copy of this data?
Every time they had a legal warrant to look up data, it would need to be issued to every single telecom in the country. Do you have any idea how time-consuming and useless that would be?
If the data came directly from the telecoms, there would be enormous opportunities for interception of the data, hackers and even telecom employee malfeasance.
It would be a completely unreliable system.
Data is easily copied and stored today because of advances in Information Technology. This is part of why this seems to have 'caught everyone by surprise', although it's no surprise to those of us in the IT business.
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