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If you had the NSA's budget, you probably wouldn't need to decide what text is relevant to store.



Deciding what to store is highly correlated with what information are we most likely going to find useful.


When I finally bought an iPod, it had 60 GB of storage. I thought, "Which albums of mine should I upload to it?" Then I remembered, "Oh right - all of them!"

My point is that deciding what to store is expensive and error-prone, with false-positives and false-negatives. Storage is so cheap, that there's an argument to be made that they can just store everything they want to.




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