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IBM was smart and got out of the PC business years ago. Selling PCs is a bad business.

^ A 16-lane PCI-E supports 31.51 GB/s of bandwidth. Thunderbolt 2 supports 20Gbps of bandwidth, or 2.5GB/s. So it's actually only 1/12th of the bandwidth.

You really believe that the NSA can't get into Twitter's servers if they want to? They just plant someone in security.

What's the easiest way to get into every consumer internet service? Just get someone there on the payroll. That's how it's always been done.

You're a cat.

The fact is there are almost no facts. The NSA is allegedly putting some stuff in a database. That's essentially the "facts." We don't know what, or how, or really understand the scope. We don't know if it's real time or archival. There are ZERO technical details.

The only thing that concerns me is that the NSA is actually somewhat incompetent, as those three PowerPoint slides make it seem like the kind of security strategy developed by a 12 year old kid.

I would have assumed that the NSA wouldn't need to ask Facebook or Google to participate. I just assumed that they could get access to any encryption keys necessary through any number of ways, and syphon off the data wholesale at the ISP level. These aren't exactly "secure" organizations. Gmail accounts routinely get hacked by 15 year old Chinese kids trying to steal WoW passwords. I would hope the NSA could do much better.

This whole thing is so bizarre to me. The NSA has been doing this sort of thing since at least the early 90s. Who knows, probably earlier. What exactly did people think the NSA was doing? The only difference is that, before digital cell service, it was more difficult to monitor phones conversations because the infrastructure simply didn't support it.

Everyone's all riled up over a few PowerPoint slides (which may ver well be fake). I don't get. No mainstream company or consumer has ever given two shits about encryption. You send data in plaintext and are surprised that the NSA might be reading/logging it?

The public overwhelmingly supported the PATRIOT Act back when it was passed. Black box rooms in telecom facilities were exposed what, 10 years ago? No one gave a shit.

Why do people seem to suddenly care? You can't say it's because, "We have more information," because we really don't. People suddenly care about privacy?

I do not understand what those who are outraged thought the NSA did. Honestly, how can you be so ignorant?