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Sounds like it. Now they just need to make a call to another country in the Five Eyes to get the data.

API Firehose more like

The real question is whether they would use websockets or Protobuf

Government. At best it's REST but good chance it's SOAP or scripts doing FTP transfers of huge CSV files in the night.

My money is on FTP.

> Government. At best it's REST but good chance it's SOAP or scripts doing FTP transfers of huge CSV files in the night.

CSV? Fixed-field-width EBCDIC text.

and about 1/3 getting printed out and faxed and then data entry clerks keying in what comes out of the fax machine on the far side.

If they were doing that I wouldn’t even mind too much, because that would force them to focus on the important stuff instead of drag-netting everyone.

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