On: How the NSA spied on Americans before the Internet

[samstave]

>I wonder if they have anything to do with the bandwidth caps we've seen over the last few years.

That is an amazing thought. How could we find out about this.

"We can only subcribe the surveillance system to XK/user/month -- tell the Telcos"

[mindslight → samstave]

Or they just force the telcos to hold off on upgrading their backbones until the associated black rooms have been upgraded. Much simpler, same effect.