Re:The NSA Admits It Analyzes More People's Data Than Previo...
by gknoy on Wednesday July 17, 2013 @04:13PM
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The article noted people everyone on the internet is on average 4.74 hops from someone else. [1]
If they say "Two or three", that makes me believe that they have no constraints on it, and merely query as many hops' worth of data as is enough to give what they feel to be Enough. "Two or three" implies, IMO, "... to five".
If they say "Two or three", that makes me believe that they have no constraints on it, and merely query as many hops' worth of data as is enough to give what they feel to be Enough. "Two or three" implies, IMO, "... to five".
1: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/22/technology/between-you-and...