re: #3 Randall Gross

Not from the amount of information they are describing. No it’s not the entire Internet either. What it look like to me is that they are getting raw feeds from some ISP at key locations on the international backbone. Most likely they are capturing a substantial amount of international traffic and using this to search. The sum effect of it is probably that if you live in the continental US and are connecting to servers in the continental US they aren’t seeing much. On the other hand if you are in Europe and contacting servers in the US or another country they are sifting though it. The same if you are here and getting stuff from Europe.

We also get from this the bleeding frigging obvious that there is way to much data to sift through easily so what they actually keep is very, very limited.