New documents reveal scale of US Government’s cell phone location data tracking

Re:New documents reveal scale of US Government’s cell phone ... by colordrops on Monday July 18, 2022 @08:17PM (#32145863)

I recall some natural disaster in Thailand being blamed for a hard drive shortage at the time, when it ended up being the NSA buying them all up for their Utah data center.

Edit: anyone downvoting want to comment on why this is implausible or not noteworthy to mention? It was a topic of discussion at the time.

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Re:New documents reveal scale of US Government’s cell phone ... by ReactiveJelly on Monday July 18, 2022 @08:31PM (#32145938)

Source? Would love to hear about this.

I searched for "thailand hard drive shortage nsa" and only got...

2013 Nov, Backblaze's annual hard drive report still only blamed the flooding: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/farming-hard-drives-2-years-a...

2015, Tech Power-Up has a story about NSA malware hidden in hard drive firmware: https://www.techpowerup.com/209925/nsa-hides-spying-backdoor...

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Re:New documents reveal scale of US Government’s cell phone ... by colordrops on Monday July 18, 2022 @08:46PM (#32146050)

I don't recall where I heard it but found this in a quick search:

https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/li1pep/a_global...

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