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Snowden leaks lack context says security studies professor

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As a non computer programmer there is something that always jarred about the Snowden revelations – at least how they were reported that maybe you can explain?

It seems to be widely believed – certainly amongst the MSM and general public I encounter – that the NSA is recording or caching everything for analysis later. In fact someone in this very comments thread mentions it. Can someone explain how that is possible? Surely the sum of the traffic through the internet is greater than the traffic itself, and to attempt to store it would (very quickly, if not immediately) require more storage than exists. The problem being made worse every second.

Am I misunderstanding this? Thanks.

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