[163414] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: PRISM: NSA/FBI Internet data mining project
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andy Ringsmuth)
Fri Jun 7 16:36:56 2013
From: Andy Ringsmuth <andy@newslink.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAL9jLaYe1SiKV4qKbnt8eCbR4BYjeN04XNr_u=VAgBa1JB+efQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2013 15:36:33 -0500
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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:
>=20
>> and also, only $20m/year? in my experience, the govt cannot do =
anything like this
>> addressing even a single provider for that little money.
>=20
> agreed, that 20m seems extraordinarily low for such an effort... hell,
> for 6 yrs time transport costs along would have exceeded that number.
>=20
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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