[xzins]

Check out this link: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/all/

[Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America]

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[TLI]

Binney held his thumb and forefinger close together. “We are, like, that far from a turnkey totalitarian state,”

We are, like, that far from LOL at the stupidity of this.

Or, like, were ANY of them "that far" from realizing the entire MO of their shiny thing can only play catch-up to current and leading events?

Apparently not...

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[citizen]

Bttt

[JoeProBono]

[spokeshave]

...just hook it up to the drones ...and Skynet emerges...

[Nowhere Man]

This reminds me of a modern day "Tower of Babel." This will fall one day, be it from someone, or something breaks or even God Himself would take care of it much as he did to Emperor Nimrod with the original Tower of Babel. Yeah, this is a powerful system but as things get more sophisticated and the chain gets longer, it is only as strong as the weakest link. If the power grid is disrupted unless they keep trucking diesel in, they are screw after three days. I'm surprised they are not using an atomic reactor or two. Same if the cooling system has problems and so on. Still this is wrong with the threat to our liberty but overall, there will be a day when this will grind to a halt and the powers that be will be irrelevant.

I can see it now, the reel-to-reel tape drives are whirring and spinning, banks of lights blinking on and off in weird patterns, relays clacking back and forth and so on. OK, maybe not exactly like that but I just finished watching a 1964 episode of "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea." B-)

Back in 1988/89, one of my best friends went to France to study and we were talking about the same thing where computers were monitoring phone conversions and so on. Just for kicks and experimentation, we said stuff like, "how are your marks (Marx) coming in college over there" and "I'm just sitting here listening to some John Lennon (Lenin)" and we did hear some funny clicks and so on and then we said, "whoever is listening, get a life."

The powers that be are getting to smug and arrogant so this "Tower of Babel" will come down one day.

[higgmeister]

Instead it chose to put the wiretapping rooms at key junction points throughout the country—large, windowless buildings known as switches—thus gaining access to not just international communications but also to most of the domestic traffic flowing through the US.

This is plain silly. I worked for 12 years at one of those junction switch sites and there are no "wiretapping rooms" in the building but the fact is, a special room is not needed. A broadband digital signal is transmitted with diversity paths in expectation that if one of the signal paths is impaired, the other will arrive at the distant mode intact and usable. It is a simple step to parallel another signal within the switch and route it to a remote location for storage and retrieval. The technicians that work at the site do not even need to know it has been done. Very few Verizon, AT&T or Sprint personnel would need to know. The switching hardware manufacturers would only be aware that a capability exists to copy and retransmit a signal to a remote node different from the primary node.

[informavoracious]

Yeah, yeah, but who won on Dance with the Stars?? And did you see how big Kim Kardashian’s baby bump is? How sbout them Yankees?

[justa-hairyape]

Precisely what I thought. They store everything because the filtration process is too much work. So every communication from every politically elected legislature has been stored. And the traitor who fled to china is worried about his family. He obviously needed some insurance from a drone attack also. So he obviously sat at a terminal and downloaded everything on key US elected officials. If you assume he is a traitor, you have to assume he did that.

[bert]

Having scrounged for money for Navy project change orders, I can’t help but wonder where the appropriated funds came from.

[palmer]

The breakthrough was enormous, says the former official, and soon afterward the agency pulled the shade down tight on the project, even within the intelligence community and Congress. “Only the chairman and vice chairman and the two staff directors of each intelligence committee were told about it,” he says. The reason? “They were thinking that this computing breakthrough was going to give them the ability to crack current public encryption.”

public key encryption? This article has so much BS in it it's hard to know what the useful facts are. But there is a simple fact about diffuse data like most of what is described which is that is can't realistically be used to find or track terrorists. In theory they would have all of the phone calls and internet activity recorded for someone like Tamerlan and just pick out some salient facts about nefarious people he communicated with and stuff that he looked up.

The problem is, that doesn't work. Even when the Russians told them to scrutinize the guy and the FBI investigated (and were well justified to record everything and keep a file) they did not. Instead we collect googlebytes of utterly useless data and use 60 MW of electricity to decrypt it, all for nothing.

[stockpirate]

pinging jack unless they have already taken you to the re-education camp.

[Cyber Liberty]

Does anybody really think this new data center will actually be where the data is kept?