Re: PRISM: NSA/FBI Internet data mining project

[Andy Ringsmuth <andy () newslink com>]

On Jun 7, 2013, at 10:02 AM, Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists () gmail com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 1:57 AM, Mark Seiden <mis () seiden com> wrote:
>
> > and also, only $20m/year?  in my experience, the govt cannot do anything like this
> > addressing even a single provider for that little money.
>
> agreed, that 20m seems extraordinarily low for such an effort... hell,
> for 6 yrs time transport costs along would have exceeded that number.

Obligatory Independence Day quote:


President Thomas Whitmore: I don't understand, where does all this come from? How do you get funding for something like 
this?

Julius Levinson: You don't actually think they spend $20,000 on a hammer, $30,000 on a toilet seat, do you?


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