The Surveillance Engine: How the NSA Built Its Own Secret Google
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Re: The Surveillance Engine: How the NSA Built Its Own Secret Google
#2Somewhat OT but its amazing out of 3 "FTEs" 1 was for design ("GUI") and this is what they came up with. [1] pg 22
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/document/2014/08/25/shari...
Re: The Surveillance Engine: How the NSA Built Its Own Secret Google
#3It's kind of remarkable that they kept the lid on this on long as they did. With so many local/loosely-related agencies involved, I'm surprised somebody didn't leak this much sooner.
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#4People always assumed they did this but now we have proof.
I thought it was amazing that the government spent so much time discussing the call records being logged.. when they are doing so much worse. Maybe that's how they keep people focusing on what the government wants to talk about? (aka look over here, nevermind that thing over there...)
This find is way worse than call detail records..
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#5Brought to you by meta data commodities and pattern recognition limited - don't be evil. just be data.
Re: The Surveillance Engine: How the NSA Built Its Own Secret Google
#6Somewhat OT but its amazing out of 3 "FTEs" 1 was for design ("GUI") and this is what they came up with. [1] pg 22 https://firstlook.org/theintercept/document/2014/08/25/shari...
Also notice the entire screen shot. Netscape on Windows XP in, best we can tell, sometime after March 2006.
Netscape. With an AIM launcher in the status bar. Accessing TOP SECRET//COMINT//NOFORN resources.
Re: The Surveillance Engine: How the NSA Built Its Own Secret Google
#7wouldn't we rather have more efficient tools like this than hacky-sketchy tools that can go too far?
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#9I don't think it remained "under the radar" like some are commenting. There's mention of it in Snowden's disclosures and if you search around, lots of government recruiting related info, e.g., http://www.socnet.com/archive/index.php/t-108034.html
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#10I guess it's always cool to learn about top secret stuff that spies do, but I don't get why the specifics of how their search engine works is significant. Am I just missing something?