People wonder how the government watches the communications of millions.

[Romulus Quirinus]

It is very simple if you have enough resources. Technically, it is similar to how Google manages its powerful search engine!

First, you enter your search terms at google.com. Then, your search terms are printed up at Google's HQ in Mountain View on a little strip of paper. They are given to unpaid interns, who wade into the internet to gather your search results using Google Glass and Power Gloves. Once they gather over nine thousand results, the interns write them down and scan them into PDFs. Finally, an OCR routine translates the written text into digital text, which is forwarded back to you. This is how you can get to facebook.com by opening google and searching for "facebook."

The only difference between Google and your friendly neighborhood intelligence guy is that they put in the search terms FOR you, and instead of searching the entire world wide web, they search through all those little phone records!

Isn't that neat?!

[Romulus Quirinus]

1. Well, I thought I was hilarious. :3 nt

[tech3149]

2. I usually only wander around the back yard or neighborhood

And I don't wonder about the government or companies gathering information about me and what I do. They do it for their own benefit or to maintain their own position of power or authority.

[Romulus Quirinus]

3. lol, thanks for the heads up. :) nt