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sliverstorm on March 26, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: We may have witnessed a NSA "Shotgiant" TAO-like a...

You misunderstand. The author is saying that the particular SQL query they saw executed, would only return data interesting to Americans

danielweber on March 26, 2014 [–]

That's leaving a lot to his interpretation.

Chinese intelligence might be interested in something simply because they (correctly or not) deduce that American intelligence will be interested in it.

sliverstorm on March 26, 2014 | [–]

Obviously, but I'm just clarifying here.

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