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13. A wildly, deliberately misleading piece of PR.

Sat Aug 10, 2013, 02:31 AM

Aug 2013

Last edited Sat Aug 10, 2013, 06:16 AM - Edit history (2)

Bots and automated traffic make up more than half of internet traffic. Netflix and Youtube streams make up about half of North American traffic.

They are trying to mislead the public into thinking that only one or two percent *of our personal communications* are spied on and stored, but the truth is that personal communications are a miniscule fraction of total web traffic to begin with.

Please see my OP here:

Misleading PR Claim by Gov't: We only monitor 1.6 percent of internet traffic."
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023438572

They are collecting everything possible of your activity online. Count on it.

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NSA memo says the agency monitors 1.6 percent of all internet traffic [View all] morningfog Aug 2013 OP

I wonder if that is true. nt ZombieHorde Aug 2013 #1

The real question is how much does it store. dkf Aug 2013 #2

that was my first thought grasswire Aug 2013 #7

98.4% of you are just paranoid. JaneyVee Aug 2013 #3

Did you live through the sixties? grasswire Aug 2013 #8

We have to learn to get along now, b/c when President Santorum mans the helm, we HardTimes99 Aug 2013 #16

Yeah, just think what's he'll do with DU! RKP5637 Aug 2013 #29

Good point about the Libertarians--2014 elections could get more of them into msanthrope Aug 2013 #17

Not the 60s, but I survived the Bush regime. No, I won't be paranoid under a JaneyVee Aug 2013 #22

well, you're behind the curve on that assumption grasswire Aug 2013 #23

Media storage, algorithms and software + supercomputers ... it's easier RKP5637 Aug 2013 #30

That's the gist of it. eom millennialmax Aug 2013 #26

Right, everything Obama says is 'damage control'. randome Aug 2013 #4

Even if it is 1.6%, considering how much daily traffic there is, morningfog Aug 2013 #14

And you still have no idea, none, that this is what the NSA is covering. randome Aug 2013 #18

I don't think you understand the volume we are talking about. morningfog Aug 2013 #19

1.6% of the Sun's volume is still miniscule, relatively speaking. randome Aug 2013 #20

That has to be the worst analogy ever. morningfog Aug 2013 #21

"According to an NSA memorandum" burnodo Aug 2013 #5

The NSa probably doesn't have enough staff Rosa Luxemburg Aug 2013 #6

Depends on the meaning of the words "monitors" and "touches" limpyhobbler Aug 2013 #9

Clearly, this can't be true ProSense Aug 2013 #10

Ironically... cherokeeprogressive Aug 2013 #25

+1, n/t RKP5637 Aug 2013 #33

SUCH A PITY that they define "collect" in a totally different way than most people do. Th1onein Aug 2013 #11

Then that must mean... DisgustipatedinCA Aug 2013 #12

A wildly, deliberately misleading piece of PR. woo me with science Aug 2013 #13

In a little-noticed addendum to said memo, the NSA revealed that it reviews 100% of HardTimes99 Aug 2013 #15

Figures don't lie... kentuck Aug 2013 #24

Oh there you go making sense... Earth_First Aug 2013 #28

Strip out spam, botnets and streaming video and you're probably down to 5-10% of traffic. (nt) Posteritatis Aug 2013 #27

OK, let's do the math.... Turbineguy Aug 2013 #31

Ya and we take up about 11% of the WWW. Rex Aug 2013 #32