They cannot possibly process that much email in realtime and terabytes of storage is dirt cheap (especially on an endless government spy budget) hence the storage.
I am betting gmail poses a real problem for them because so many people use it, but since one of the google founders has ties to the CIA, you can be sure they have an official backdoor.
'but since one of the google founders has ties to the CIA, you can be sure they have an official backdoor.'
Source? Never heard that...
So they are realtime STORING all that stuff, but not processing it? DOesn't this mean it's constantly growing and eventually will become impossible to process unless they really speed up the processing right?
I am betting gmail poses a real problem for them because so many people use it, but since one of the google founders has ties to the CIA, you can be sure they have an official backdoor.