re: #234 Charles Johnson

.@Green_Footballs headline off by a factor of 10. Close enough for natsec/intel reporting. /

— lawhawk (@lawhawk) March 12, 2014

@Green_Footballs they also claim based on Snowden file reports that NSA already deployed 85k-100k worldwide, with scaling up likely. 1/10th

— lawhawk (@lawhawk) March 12, 2014

The millions are supposition. They keep changing the numbers around, without any context. And how many computers are there worldwide? Billions? Currently they claim that the NSA has tagged 85,000 to 100,000 computers for their efforts, but want to scale that up.

As if trying to gain intel on foreign countries is a bad thing. Or that no one else is doing this? It’s again a combination of sensationalism, paranoia, and naivete to think that only the NSA does this, or that we shouldn’t be doing this at all.