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Re:Larry Page addresses PRISM by tomkarlo on Friday June 07, 2013 @08:28PM (#5843022)
Consider the sheer volume of data we're talking about here. Unless you think these companies would miss a fiber optic trunk running out the back door of their data centers, does that make any sense?
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Re:Larry Page addresses PRISM by adventured on Friday June 07, 2013 @09:58PM (#5843333)
The Feds have direct taps into every major telecom carrier in the US. You can't fire off a search query to Google without the Feds technically being able to pick it up.

Access is trivial, volume is a much more interesting problem.

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Re:Larry Page addresses PRISM by zero_intp on Saturday June 08, 2013 @02:19AM (#5844064)
This is accurate. When your service provider is having a scheduled maintenance, it might be a passive optical tap or port replicator.
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Re:Larry Page addresses PRISM by einhverfr on Friday June 07, 2013 @11:13PM (#5843581)
How much data is leaving?

There could be a lot less data leaving than you think.

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