Spooky: How NSA's Surveillance Algorithms See Into Your Life

Posted by timothy on Tuesday July 24, 2012 @02:05AM from the spitzer's-the-expert-on-personal-intrusion dept.

SmartAboutThings writes "A quite scary talk show with former NSA employees — now whistle blowers — Thomas Drake, Kirk Wiebe, and William Binney reveals that the NSA has algorithms that go through data gathered about us and they can basically 'see into our lives.' And this seems to be going on especially since the Patriot Act has removed the statutory requirement that the government prove a surveillance target under FISA is a non-U.S. citizen and agent of a foreign power." Binney's HOPE keynote has more detail on how the NSA watches people.

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COINTELRPO tecniqueused on JUST NOW on THIS thread by EnergyScholar · 2012-07-24 04:07 · Score: 5, Interesting

If you take a quick look at The Gentleperson's Guide To Forum Spies you can observe that Technique #1, Forum Sliding, was just used on the Slashdot front page to obscure this NSA-related discussion thread. Note how lots and lots of semi-bogus new stories quickly appeared, causing this [mildly objectionable] story to slide off the front page.