"There was a lot of discussion about the switches" in conversations with the court, a Justice Department official said, referring to the gateways through which much of the communications traffic flows. "You're talking about access to such a vast amount of communications, and the question was, How do you minimize something that's on a switch that's carrying such large volumes of traffic? [Sounds like alot of class action suits to me? I don't know what you pay monthly, but did the Feds pay them for access to your data?]