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Re:Secret Documents: NSA monitored 500 million connections i... by onli on Sunday June 30, 2013 @08:02AM (#5965476)
Ziel is both, it can mean target and destination. In that case, it is more of a target (attack destination? na, the NSA is not currently in an airplane flying into battle).

> Maybe "country of interest"?

Yeah maybe, but that sounds a bit harmless, doesn't it?

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Re:Secret Documents: NSA monitored 500 million connections i... by Vivtek on Sunday June 30, 2013 @10:09AM (#5965819)
It does sound harmless, which is why it's the Orwell-approved nomenclature. In fifty years it won't sound at all harmless, and there will be a new euphemism.

"Attack destination" made me smile. The English word destination doesn't work like that, but maybe it should.

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