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2 November 2013
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2013 16:48:15 -0700 (PDT) It seems that Greenwald already listed the US DNR total, and since he is looking at better images than I am (I am reading the Hindu's images), I'm inclined to take his total. (though not the interpretation of it, I've gone into the reasons enough times) "There are no precise figures, but last January Brazil was just behind the United States, which had 2.3 billion phone calls and messages spied." I have a US aggregate figure from Le Monde (3,095,533,478), Greenwald's rounded DNR figure from O Globo (2,300,000,000), which leaves the approximate US DNI total to be (795,533,478) The revised DNR figures:
Pakistan: 12.76 billion Total: 124.8 billion. _____
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2013 16:58:38 -0700 (PDT) Statement from Greenwald's Dismissal of the Dismissal does not match the Article: "A similar article, using the same set of documents, was published in Brazil's O Globo a week later, reporting the NSA's collection of the data for more than 2 billion calls and emails in Brazil in a single month. Another article, in the Indian daily the Hindu, reported on bulk collection of the data of calls in India based on the same document set." http://ggsidedocs.blogspot.com/ Whereas the article in question actually states "Não há números precisos, mas em janeiro passado o Brasil ficou pouco atrás dos Estados Unidos, que teve 2,3 bilhões de telefonemas e mensagens espionados." ( There are no precise figures, but last January Brazil was just behind the United States, which had 2.3 billion phone calls and messages spied.) In the first instance it would seem that 2 billion was the Aggregate Brazil total (calls and emails), but in fact it was the US DNR total (calls and text messages). I caught this because i was trying to reconcile the color of Brazil vs Germany, with Germany apparently having a lower total but a more intense color. _____ 29 October 2013. A explicates now the numbers below were derived from NSA Boundless Informant images and responds to press reports: 2013-1481.htm NSA Boundless Informant Images Explicated October 29, 2013 _____ 24 October 2013. A sends:
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 00:29:02 -0700 (PDT) I feel a need to explain that 1 call metadata record does not necessarily correspond to 1 phone call. There is no easy way to determine the number of tapped phone calls from the number of metadata records captured. The number of metadata records generated by each phone call will depend on several factors. Here are a few: 1) It is possible for a new record to be generated along each switch along the call's path. In some ways the NSA is it's own worst enemy to say that the reports of 70 million calls in France being logged per month is inaccurate without explaining any of this. However, it isn't really better to say that each call on average generated 3 metadata records which were on average picked up twice apiece (ie: "it's only 11.7 million calls we bugged"). _____ 23 October 2013. A sends revised numbers: NSA Spied 124.8 Billion Phone Calls in a Month
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 17:08:34 -0700 I did not include the total in my original email, because does not reflect the totality of the NSA's operation. If we take a look at the Map view, we actually have the true total: 124.8 BILLION. The map view seems to be captured on Jan 8, 2013, and captures reflects the last 30 days, just like the org views. (Declassify date: Jan 1, 2032), and is giving is some totals. There ought to be an Org view for each of the countries on the map view. According to the FAQ, the org views appear to have the ability to drill down further than we've seen so far. The caveat here is the the FAQ warns that the totals on the Org and map views are not the same, be that as it may, we still should have some idea based on the published images. So the Real bottom line is:
Pakistan: 12.76 Billion Total: 124.8 billion.
Sources: 22 October 2013 NSA Spied 540 Million Phone Calls in a Month
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 13:25:47 -0700 (PDT) It looks to me a lot like the Le Monde stories will follow the path of the Brazilian and Indian stories. It has occurred to me that this same story can also be told for many, many other countries: der Spiegel has already published BOUNDLESSINFORMANT graphs for the following: Germany, France, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands. If we take careful measurements of these graphs, and work out the appropriate scaling, we can determine how many telephone metadata records we have in each of these countries over the same 30 day period (DNR). The accuracy will be plus or minus 1 pixel, scaled appropriately. I have enclosed my chart. The bottom Line:
Germany: 361 Million Total: 539.8 Million Publish if you will, there's nothing here that a person with a spreadsheet, a photo editor, and a lot of time couldn't have worked out, and for that reason, it's not encrypted.
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