The best laid plans of mice and men....
/johnny
You know, we used to throw a net over people that talked that way...
At least I grew up happy in a free country and got to enjoy that for a while. I even remember when the CIA spied on other countries, and they weren’t allowed to spy on us.
I figured this out a long time ago. Heck, I'd bet the basic software was written a few years ago.
For instance, it's not all that hard to tie in posters who post from website to facebooks, et al using heuristic assumption building dossiers on everything and everyone. You have the computing power of the federal government it would be easier than pie and just time to develop the platform.
Hello CIA and other alphabet organs.
Interesting ... cause sometimes I catch myself deleting my post because am thinking Loose lips sink ships.
CIA says:
Average cell phone use = 19 minutes per person per day.
Me: At most, 19 minutes/year
CIA says:
Average texts per person per year = 876
Me: Possibly 1 as a test to myself
The ultimate purpose is to use this technology for campaigning, including vote turnout and suppression.
And its all being shared with the Democratic party.
"Since you can't connect dots you don't have, it drives us into a mode of, we fundamentally try to collect everything and hang on to it forever," Hunt said. "It is really very nearly within our grasp to be able to compute on all human generated information."
Hunt, last year your brethren at the NSA denied doing what you're doing. You guys on the same page? Talk to each other much?
"WASHINGTON – What would you think if someone told you personal emails, voicemails and web searches,basically your electronic footprint, could be viewed and stored by a government official?
The feds say that would never happen but some say it is, and by 2013 it will all be funneled into the Utah Data Center.
A more formal description of the center is the First Intelligence Community Comprehensive National Cyber-security Initiative Data Center.
And it’s huge. One million square feet, all to be filled with more technology and data storage than you could imagine.
It is not a stretch to say Utah is quickly becoming the data center capitol of the U.S., especially now that the state will be home to what some say is one the largest spy centers in the nation. .... "
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There is no valid reason for the CIA to exist; there never was.
Most people who work for the CIA probably don’t know, won’t admit or don’t want to think about who they really work for.
they prolly need/have a small reactor to power their drive farm...Some of the most technically capable and healthy people of my acquaintance seldom use the Internet and sometimes don’t use it at all for lengthy periods. I use it mostly to gather knowledge in several technical fields (low tech., mostly). Eventually, as more people become more technically skilled in order to get by, few technically inclined people will use the Net much if at all (geological saturation with activities more productive than spying, gossip, etc.).
Low-tech entertainment is even making a comeback in many places (bluegrass and alternative with improvised instruments, anyone?). And the Internet is not the only means for information or communication.
The REASON given at the time was that there was so much data available that it was somewhat IMPOSSIBLE to filter through ALL of it by anyone individually or collectively.
Judging the effectiveness of Government itself I doubt that paradigm has changed. It may have even worsened.
The NSA is watching everything you do, Chief! :-)
Alas, Brave New Babylon.