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NSA Building US's Biggest Spy Center
New submitter AstroPhilosopher writes "The National Security Agency is building a complex to monitor and store 'all' communications in a million-square-foot facility. One of its secret roles? Code-breaking your private, personal information. Everybody's a target. Quoting Wired: 'Breaking into those complex mathematical shells like the AES is one of the key reasons for the construction going on in Bluffdale. That kind of cryptanalysis requires two major ingredients: super-fast computers to conduct brute-force attacks on encrypted messages and a massive number of those messages for the computers to analyze. The more messages from a given target, the more likely it is for the computers to detect telltale patterns, and Bluffdale will be able to hold a great many messages. "We questioned it one time," says another source, a senior intelligence manager who was also involved with the planning. "Why were we building this NSA facility? And, boy, they rolled out all the old guys—the crypto guys." According to the official, these experts told then-director of national intelligence Dennis Blair, "You’ve got to build this thing because we just don’t have the capability of doing the code-breaking." It was a candid admission.'"
Panopticon this week; Maybe we'll get Skynet by accident?
That might be best for everyone in the long run...
Truth isn't Truth - Guliani
Use no encryption and have a sig like mine. Eventually someone gets bored of reading every mundane post and email and puts you on an "ignore" filter.
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ECHELON is a government program to find words like bomb, jihad, plutonium, assassinate, and anarchy.
One of its secret roles? Code-breaking your private, personal information. Everybody's a target.
Gee, if that is a secret, I promise not to tell anyone. Anyone joining me on that? Just hope that no one will read this article who doesn't already know, that would kind of spoil it.
Ezekiel 23:20
First post, never got that before.
You must be using the new FTL neutrino submission system.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
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You're Chinese?
How many bits should we use for encryption now?
All of them.
That would be 640kB
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