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Off-topic, but what kind of door lock is shown in this picture? https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/89/Room_641...
Hopefully the hinges have security pins.
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Is it a known fact that AT&T is in bed with the NSA, or just a coincidence? Titanpointe and Room 641A are currently or formerly owned by AT&T.
Basically all telecom. Highly important for three-letter agencies to have access, and they have basically unlimited resources, so they get access.
The NSA has gone way beyond that now. Expand "room" to fortress , and then multiply by 8. https://theintercept.com/2018/06/25/att-internet-nsa-spy-hub...
One day I was getting out of my car to carry groceries into my house. Our nice neighbor was passing on the sidewalk at that moment, saw the EFF hat I was wearing, and asked me about it. "Do you work for the EFF?" "No, but I throw some money at them when I can because I like them." "Oh. I like them, too. They helped me out a lot once." "Oh yeah? For what?" He laughed. "I'm Mark Klein. Go Google me when you're finished…
Off topic question... Do golden retrievers have a mean side to them? I’ve always liked them and I dont like scary dogs in general
One day I was getting out of my car to carry groceries into my house. Our nice neighbor was passing on the sidewalk at that moment, saw the EFF hat I was wearing, and asked me about it. "Do you work for the EFF?" "No, but I throw some money at them when I can because I like them." "Oh. I like them, too. They helped me out a lot once." "Oh yeah? For what?" He laughed. "I'm Mark Klein. Go Google me when you're finished…
Cool story. Off topic question... Do golden retrievers have a mean side to them? I’ve always liked them and I dont like scary dogs in general
One day I was getting out of my car to carry groceries into my house. Our nice neighbor was passing on the sidewalk at that moment, saw the EFF hat I was wearing, and asked me about it. "Do you work for the EFF?" "No, but I throw some money at them when I can because I like them." "Oh. I like them, too. They helped me out a lot once." "Oh yeah? For what?" He laughed. "I'm Mark Klein. Go Google me when you're finished…
Cool story. Off topic question... Do golden retrievers have a mean side to them? I’ve always liked them and I dont like scary dogs in general
Putting ethics and legality aside (if you can, and you shouldn't), it's a marvellous technical achievement to be able to take a beam splitter and analyse all the traffic. I assume they must do a lot of early filtering in hardware to select traffic of interest based on IP headers and then some deeper inspection, and then gradually move up to software on the filtered traffic. Do we think they start with dedicated ASICs…
>it's a marvellous technical achievement Not trying to argue for the sake of it here, but _is_ that a huge achievement? I assumed this was a simple device that splits the fiber beam, sending one part on it's way to AT&T and the other to some NSA database for further processing.
So they have to filter a lot of data for interesting bits really fast before storing / sending it anywhere else
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>it's a marvellous technical achievement Not trying to argue for the sake of it here, but _is_ that a huge achievement? I assumed this was a simple device that splits the fiber beam, sending one part on it's way to AT&T and the other to some NSA database for further processing.
Well at the speed the data comes in, you don't have time/space to store it all on disk (and just filling up also doesn't seem to beneficial for them) and also can't just double all traffic for sending it to the NSA So they have to filter a lot of data for interesting bits really fast before storing / sending it anywhere else