[cm2187]

If you take out porn videos and duplicate js libraries the text traffic is probably not that great!

[cmurf]

Right. And also deduct 90+% likely spam/phishing candidates, and all youtube and Netflix streams and what remains is what, 20%? 10%?

[cm2187]

I'd say less than that. Remove all https traffic, js frameworks, identical images, video, newspapers and major blog entries, and I'd guess the remaining text traffic must be 1-2% of the global traffic.

One thing I'd guess too is that the NSA must have the mother of all password databases. Given all the login forms that went through unencrypted and still do. If I was the NSA that's the first thing I would have captured.

[Mtinie]

I guess it is time to start hiding my sensitive data inside of customized versions of jQuery and Angular! :)

[dangerlibrary]

My understanding is that they store all https traffic to be decrypted later.

[cm2187]

That I find harder to believe. A lot of video is going through https, that would be huge amounts.

[cyphar]

Look up BULLRUN. That's literally what is happening.

[snowwrestler]

Where in the BULLRUN materials does it say that the NSA is storing all HTTPS traffic on the Internet to be decrypted later?