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Re:The NSA Admits It Analyzes More People's Data Than Previo... by s_q_b on Wednesday July 17, 2013 @03:59PM (#6059901)
If you have a nearly universal database, you can probably get pretty close to covering the entire population of the country with 3 hops.
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Re:The NSA Admits It Analyzes More People's Data Than Previo... by jlgreco on Wednesday July 17, 2013 @04:55PM (#6060163)
marshray downthread brings up a great point (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6059864)

Even if you assume a low chance of everyone getting hit in 3 hops from one Kevin Bacon, there of course isn't just one Kevin Bacon. That "terrorist watch list" is pretty damn long.

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