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Horsey always gets it right! (Original Post)
CaliforniaPeggy
Dec 2013
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I just think it's great they can't tell us why they need the MetaData, but only that they NEED it.
NightWatcher
Dec 2013
#2
All I know is who you know, and who they know. Which is like nothing at all, or is it? nt
Electric Monk
Dec 2013
#6
CaliforniaPeggy
(151,489 posts)1. Wow, thank you, everyone, for all the recommendations!
NightWatcher
(39,353 posts)2. I just think it's great they can't tell us why they need the MetaData, but only that they NEED it.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,704 posts)4. They need the metadata because ...
... they don't have the capacity to store the actual phone call and text content ... yet ...
Soon, even that will be justified, because, well, terra. And 9/11.
Downwinder
(12,869 posts)5. They need the metadata to index the conversations.
Phones are line switched.
Electric Monk
(13,869 posts)6. All I know is who you know, and who they know. Which is like nothing at all, or is it? nt
Warpy
(112,941 posts)3. All it needs is "emet" on its forehead
and it would be the perfect Golem, built to protect but turning on the very people it was built to protect.
Horsey almost got it right.
Iwillnevergiveup
(9,298 posts)7. What a ghoulish, ravenous beast!
And here I thought Cheney was bad. Thanks for posting this, very apropos.
jsr
(7,712 posts)8. Perfect.