[Cryptography] Ranking what draws surveillance attention

[Jerry Leichter]

Just to correct one minor point - because in this “post-truth” world accuracy is important:

“One of the compelling pieces of evidence that this database now exists, is that there's approximately no other way that a blatantly political prosecution of Letitia James or Jim Comey on the grounds of supposed irregularities in decades-old real estate transactions could have happened.  Somewhere somebody entered those names in a database and it came back with every detail any branch of the federal government had ever collected.”

No.  In this case, we know exactly the “who and how.”  Bill Pulte, Trump’s pick as the head of the FHFA (Federal Housing Finance Agency) has made a little business for himself trawling through his agency’s records looking for Trump enemies who he could refer to the Department of Injustice for prosecution.

Quite proud of himself, he apparently is.

                                          -- Jerry