fezident
01-16-2009, 02:29 PM
I am not asking if emails & texts exist locally. I'm talking about a "mainframe".
My question is,
Is there a permanent recording of your emails and texts on some mysterious server somewhere?
Could an email or text from 8 years ago be retrieved today?
I'm sure the conspiracy theorists will say yes. I'm not interested in anyone's theories.... I wanna know the actuarials of every single text and email being harvested and logged in such a way that the FBI, CIA, DEA, etc etc could obtain the written data that was in the original message.
I say "no".
I think if such an infrastructure was in place, we'd hear about a LOT more arrests and convictions that were obtained through these means.
And yet.... I know many people who say that "they" (whoever THAT is) have records of "everything" when referring to emails that could incriminate somebody.
I know that there's probably a record that a text was sent from this phone to that phone. Or an email from this IP to that IP. But is the content there too??
Inquiring minds wanna know.
My question is,
Is there a permanent recording of your emails and texts on some mysterious server somewhere?
Could an email or text from 8 years ago be retrieved today?
I'm sure the conspiracy theorists will say yes. I'm not interested in anyone's theories.... I wanna know the actuarials of every single text and email being harvested and logged in such a way that the FBI, CIA, DEA, etc etc could obtain the written data that was in the original message.
I say "no".
I think if such an infrastructure was in place, we'd hear about a LOT more arrests and convictions that were obtained through these means.
And yet.... I know many people who say that "they" (whoever THAT is) have records of "everything" when referring to emails that could incriminate somebody.
I know that there's probably a record that a text was sent from this phone to that phone. Or an email from this IP to that IP. But is the content there too??
Inquiring minds wanna know.