NSA Builds the Biggest Spy Center

[Rayaan]

More seriously, I get a sinking feeling about all these NSA shenanigans. Maybe they're preparing for a Pre-Crime sort of thing? There doesn't seem to be much else that can be done by having that much data in storage.

Maybe, but I heard that the spying operations hasn't actually been useful in preventing crimes nor any terrorist attacks. Nothing good has come out of NSA's spying so far.

This was brought up at the 4:37 mark in the video below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4POc26bm6Jo


One of the speakers in that discussion is James Bamford, who has been investigating the NSA and its secretive history for the last thirty years and he is a bestselling author on US intelligence agencies, two of his books which are "The Shadow Factory: The NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America" and "Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency." He is also the author of the article in the Wired magazine which I posted a link to in the OP.

[Minimalist]

[Rayaan]

[Minimalist]

[Dragonetti]

LOL! Most of the data is view by hardware. This isnt the movies, where someone in a dark corner is watching everyone's screen scroll by!

[Rayaan]

LOL! Most of the data is view by hardware.

Wherever the data is stored, and however they are viewed, the problem that still remains is that the gathered information can be and has been used by NSA agencies to wiretap into peoples' e-mails and phone conversations without them knowing it, which is not in accord with the US Constitution and something I consider to be very cynical of the government.

The NSA also has powerful search tools where the agencies can enter a person's name or IP address or anything vital that they know about him and then they can start tracking that person (for whatever reasons) and they can also pull up many other details about that person.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVBWNOxNddA

This isnt the movies, where someone in a dark corner is watching everyone's screen scroll by!

Yes, this isn't the movies, but it appears that certain things about the NSA came to existence partially out of movie-influenced fantasies.

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