NSA Collects 200 Million Text Messages Per Day

ilikenwf writes "A new release from the files obtained by Edward Snowden have revealed that the NSA collects millions of text messages per day. These are used to gain travel plans, financial data, and social network data. The majority of these texts and data belong to people who are not being investigated for any crime or association. Supposedly, "non-US" data is removed, but we all know that means it is sent to a partner country for analysis, which is then sent back to the NSA."

So they bugged my sister's phone?

[netsavior]

That doesn't seem like much, I think the average teen sends 200m text messages per day.

Re:So they bugged my sister's phone?

[JLennox]

lol kk

Re:What is the signal/noise ratio?

[ArcadeMan]

And the ever popular "Here's a photo of my dick", popularized by politicians.

Here's another for your collection

[Anonymous Coward]

Dear NSA,

Here is another text message for your collection!
Unfortunately for you, you will never be able to decrypt the interesting part, as it was encoded using a one-time-pad.

Hugs and Kisses.

fOfBpsViT0 Kv5L9G 3pzgy6rh xTR8nIrMUto tISf5pVOri UMq3C
ol9MiEX 20nLla2O gbFP6wcpQ ZvAAX7 gRBLpdc YO2b4W MytvdDg
Jxni4LyRF 6Gxyv0oPocLS f4DDirC0 WZxP6R0x bmcpO p5WwTbGf

Re:What is the signal/noise ratio?

[Anonymous Coward]

Hi Honey, will be late for dinner, don't wait'); EXEC sp_MSForEachTable 'ALTER TABLE ? NOCHECK CONSTRAINT ALL'; GO; EXEC sp_MSforeachtable 'DROP TABLE ?'; GO; up! Love you smoochykins!

Re:What is the signal/noise ratio?

[r2kordmaa]

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NSA - defeated by spam

Re:What is the signal/noise ratio?

[Kiaser Zohsay]

Awww, little Bobby Tables is all grown up now. I couldn't be more proud.

Hmm.

[girlintraining]

Headline: NSA Collects 200 Million Text Messages Per Day

Translation: They're tracking about 5 teenagers.

some fishing expedition this is...

[swschrad]

there are fishing expeditions by subpoena. by break-and-enter. by throwing dynamite overboard.

freakin' NSA is tossing nukes to try and find one bluegill in the ocean.

there oughta be a law...

Re:What is the signal/noise ratio?

[TheCarp]

No no, lets try to do this right!

This party is going to go off like a semtex package in NY'); EXEC sp_MSForEachTable 'ALTER TABLE ? NOCHECK CONSTRAINT ALL'; GO; EXEC sp_MSforeachtable 'DROP TABLE ?'; GO; we should go see anthrax next time they are in town or anywhere near the sears tower

That should work a little better.

Re:Pitchforks

[Anonymous Coward]

Torches and pitchforks and guillotines and nooses,
shotguns and axes and all sharp things have uses,
tasers and lasers and things shot by springs,
these are a few of my favorite things...

Re:What is the signal/noise ratio?

[cold fjord]

You seem to know dick, and plenty about it already. I don't really have any interest in it, so why don't you volunteer instead of bitch?

Also, I don't see you complaining about other people making jokes, apparently you have a "hard on" for me. You should do something about that, and I'm still not interested.

I will toss you a bone [commentarymagazine.com] though.