Yahoo agreed to FBI/NSA order to search all email traffic

[Catfish]

Originally Posted by Oberon

It's the only way to get those pesky Muslims, got to watch them all like hawks, and anyone who might be near them, and anyone near them.

From you, this sounds somehow.. wrong
Also, there are so much muslims in the world (far more than christians) that they have to plaster the USA with NSA eavesdropping facilities, to keep up with the chatter.
They have algorythms for that though, and you can now be killed just based on your metadata.
General Michael Hayden, a former director of both the CIA and the NSA, said this: “We kill people based on metadata”
https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...rones-pakistan
At least outside of the US. But they work on that, too.

Listening is necessary of course, however how often has this really worked, in the past?
On one hand the secret services can tell "not more attacks because we listened", but on the other hand you can also say "why didn't that work in the past, regarding all what happened ?"
We have no real intel about whether they really prevented anything, and what of it can be related to eavesdropping, if at all.

Of course, the only logical thing then is to listen more, and more detailed.. not nice but they think it's necessary.