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Unfortunately this seems all too plausible, and it really is too late to have a society that allows privacy imho.

why the downvotes?

packet metadata, intercept location and timestamp, will form the index.

You are not incorrect about that hardware.

Splice off fibre optics, copy packets, localised hardware processes like you say, directs to data center for future processing or active surveillance or active legal interception, etc.

no some of us actually care about the truth and actively despise being lied to, being gaslit, and being encouraged to do that to others to fit in with the social consensus.

Most normal people, whom you will not find on hacker news, will think you a tinfoil hat wearing lunatic to suggest anything remotely like mass surveillance being real in ky experience.