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Collect it all now. Search* it later.

* Motivations for searching are subject to change.

Exactly. That way NSA can cross their fingers and say "No, no, of course they don't have 'dossiers' on everyone, that would be crazy!" while they fail to mention that they can run a query to build one at any time.

There's a lot of scary stuff they can do. I'm sure I'm not devious enough to think of most of it.

If they have years worth of emails you wrote in your normal style to friends and colleagues, it may be hard to write anything of length anonymously without being recognized. They may have hundreds of hours of our voices recorded, and that may be fingerprintable too.

Perfect... so when you write stuff anonymously, make sure you are both high, and drunk so that it won't match your typical communications*

* assuming you aren't typically high and/or drunk

Dang, writing sober sucks.

Every email you've sent, every chat, every site you visit, every bill you've paid, every product you've bought in store, every note you store, every post you create, every file you transfer, every place you physically go, every city you visit, every route you take, and maybe even every file stored on your computer or phone.

... I'll be watching you.

Heh - we had the same idea... I adapted the lyrics:

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"Every Post You Make"

Every call you take

Every post you make

Every name you fake

Every pic you take

I'll be watching you

Every single way

Every word you say

Every game you play

Every stat you update

I'll be watching you

Why can't you see

You belong to me

How my server aches for every byte you create

Every pal you make

Every one you meet

Every like you fake

Every thing you read

I'll be watching you

Since you've leaked I been exposed to such disgrace

I search ALL posts just to track your face

I tap all lines so you can't escape

Secret courts won't stop this trace

I keep spyin' 'bama, 'bama please

Every pal you make

Every one you meet

Every like you fake

Every thing you read

I'll be watching you

Relevant video:

http://vimeo.com/32850405

Correct, it's called stylometry and means, given enough data, your normal writing is identifiable on the basis of content.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stylometry

> Collect it all now. Search* it later.

Entire data record of you over years, with `~non-finite' indefinitely long-term memory, with evolving code to sift and immediately provide answers to queries, knows you better than you. Hitting the `Enter' key, you are pwned by some `See Clearly, Act Quickly' strange strangers in Maryland. Those animal experiment abominations, with wires in heads, involuntarily switching muscles, entrapped organisms reduced to spastic robot tools, we.

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