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Isn't it though? You compromise some email provider so that you have read access to the emails of a million people going back 20 years. Literally many billions of emails with petabytes of attachments. Can you do text search on all of that text? Absolutely, an ordinary PC could do that in a realistic amount of time. Can you search the text within all of those images using some kind of computer vision system? Not without your own power plant.


>Absolutely, an ordinary PC could do that in a realistic amount of time

Bilions of emails? No, it cannot, not even store it, let alone process it fast enough to make usable




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