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Well, you just blew your cover. They're watching you now.

Alternatively, everyone could pretend to be a muslim-environmentalist-communist with strong interests in nuclear chemistry and virology. It isn't possible to watch everyone.

Crap, they're gonna be watching me, now, too.

Are you sure you aren't an agent provocateur?

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>Well, you just blew your cover. They're watching you now.

"They're" watching everyone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempora

Parsing through all that data is an unsolved problem however: https://www.zdnet.com/article/nsa-whistleblower-overwhelmed-...

They don’t need to parse all that data; simply the full take of everyone who’s ever searched for Tails, or visited the Tails website, or run Tor.

> They don’t need to parse all that data; simply the full take of everyone who’s ever searched for Tails, or visited the Tails website, or run Tor.

And what? Retain all their traffic til the end of days? Even if you restrict your selectors to Tor fans, that's still a massive amount of data.

It’s not a lot on the scale we’re discussing.

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