Study confirms 'Kevin Bacon' theory .
"With records of 30 billion electronic conversations among 180 million people from around the world, researchers have concluded that any two people on average are distanced by just 6.6 degrees of separation, meaning that they could be linked by a string of seven or fewer acquaintances. The database covered all of the Microsoft Messenger instant-messaging network in June 2006, or roughly half the world's instant-messaging traffic at that time, researchers said."
Ok, why does MSN save the IMs after they've been delivered?
2 comments:
Starch said -
I think it's safe to assume any message (email, voice-mail, text, or IM) that travels though a third party computer is being recorded.
The UK government has publicly announced they do this, and I assume the U.S. does the same but considers this practice a "state secret".
The good news is there's just too much information to sort in real time. The bad news is Google will probably find a way to sort this info a decade from now, providing an interesting look into the early years of politicians and prospective employees.
Yes that true. I think it at least was the case that laws prevented the NSA from doing so to US citizens, I believe that Bush has eroded that. in the 90s I heard lectures that said never underestimate the power your government is putting into intelligence gathering. I believe the NSA is probably still the largest purchaser of computers in the world.
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