Hmm, also this says if you would like personal information to file a PA act, which would you actually file? Either way. Ridiculous. More than a little bit scary.
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#12Ooooh - http://www.pdl.cmu.edu/SDI/2013/slides/big_graph_nsa_rd_2013...
Nice find.
This paper seems to suggest that a possible counter attack is to create bogus edges and adjacencies--thus fucking with the utility of a (sparse) adjacency matrix or attempts at having useful window sizes for BFS or the like.
I suspect, though, that any sort of attempt at that would somehow be thwarted and just cause more pain on the attempting party.
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#13Unfortunately, despite the disturbing fact that we are reading about PRISM (disturbing both that it exists and that our government can't keep highly sensitive secrets), it is classified Top Secret until September 1, 2036. I could be wrong but I believe that FOIA requests regarding it will fail until then.
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
So, sadly true. I was sending a friend an email today about this entire thing and for the first time ever I questioned whether my email would be eavesdropped on by my own government. It was a horrible feeling.
Exactly. This loss of trust and credibility is a big deal. Once it's lost, I'm not sure what the government does to get it back.
I think they have to get replaced to get that credibility back.
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#16Ooooh - http://www.pdl.cmu.edu/SDI/2013/slides/big_graph_nsa_rd_2013...
I find this especially interesting coupled with Cray's YarcData graph analytics hardware called Urika, which has 512 terabytes in memory. http://www.yarcdata.com/Products/
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#18Unfortunately, despite the disturbing fact that we are reading about PRISM (disturbing both that it exists and that our government can't keep highly sensitive secrets), it is classified Top Secret until September 1, 2036. I could be wrong but I believe that FOIA requests regarding it will fail until then.
> disturbing both that it exists and that our government can't keep highly sensitive secrets
Why could it be disturbing that a government's officials can't keep secrets about cases where they abuse their power or act against the public interest? Isn't that how democratic institutions are supposed to be designed?
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#19Unfortunately, despite the disturbing fact that we are reading about PRISM (disturbing both that it exists and that our government can't keep highly sensitive secrets), it is classified Top Secret until September 1, 2036. I could be wrong but I believe that FOIA requests regarding it will fail until then.
> disturbing both that it exists and that our government can't keep highly sensitive secrets Why could it be disturbing that a government's officials can't keep secrets about cases where they abuse their power or act against the public interest? Isn't that how democratic institutions are supposed to be designed?
It's disturbing because if things as sensitive as this are leaking, it means other things will leak that could cost lives.
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#20I'm not sure what this is all about, but even though it is _my_ government, I feel like submitting this form would add me to some monitoring list.
Don't worry about it. Everyone's on the monitoring list.