"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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Many of those of us who used the Internet during the ‘80s and ‘90s know that data sent was not private. Most of us didn’t have any problem with that then (military offices, universities, assorted nerds). If we want privacy while using the Net, we’ll have to work for that (lobbies, political information, speech, etc.).
Dust off and nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.