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NSA Builds the Biggest Spy Center
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RE: NSA Builds the Biggest Spy Center
September 22, 2013 at 12:59 pm
One of the scariest things about the NSA surveilence issue has been the people that think it's no big deal because they have nothing to hide.
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RE: NSA Builds the Biggest Spy Center
September 22, 2013 at 1:31 pm
(September 22, 2013 at 12:42 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:
(September 21, 2013 at 11:55 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Maybe we should all start transmitting random six-digit numbers that look like a code.

Maybe the place will burn down as they try to decode it?

Heh... I may just hack up a script to take /dev/urandom, pipe it through openssl, and transmit it via encrypted VPN or TOR to a machine in Europe that redirects it to /dev/null. Continuously.

Have fun with that, spooks.
I'd love to be there to see how they react. Maybe take /dev/random and run it through a gpg routine just so that it looks important. And use a Vpn in Russia.
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RE: NSA Builds the Biggest Spy Center
September 22, 2013 at 2:08 pm
(September 22, 2013 at 12:59 pm)Faith No More Wrote: One of the scariest things about the NSA surveilence issue has been the people that think it's no big deal because they have nothing to hide.

Oh I do have something to hide. Hundreds of terabytes of random data.
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RE: NSA Builds the Biggest Spy Center
September 22, 2013 at 2:12 pm
(September 22, 2013 at 1:31 pm)Lemonvariable72 Wrote:
(September 22, 2013 at 12:42 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: Heh... I may just hack up a script to take /dev/urandom, pipe it through openssl, and transmit it via encrypted VPN or TOR to a machine in Europe that redirects it to /dev/null. Continuously.

Have fun with that, spooks.
I'd love to be there to see how they react. Maybe take /dev/random and run it through a gpg routine just so that it looks important. And use a Vpn in Russia.

Oh I misspoke, I didn't mean to say /dev/random, I meant to say Koolay's horse porn collection.

My bad.
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RE: NSA Builds the Biggest Spy Center
September 22, 2013 at 2:28 pm
(September 21, 2013 at 6:48 am)Rayaan Wrote: Located deep in the Utah desert, it is the world's largest and most secretive surveillance center designed by the National Security Agency (NSA).
It encompasses 1 million square feet (seven times larger than the Pentagon) and contains the fastest supercomputers that will store huge quantities of data from e-mails, phone calls, and internet activity from all over the world, once they are turned on. The Utah computers are expected to be running by October, 2013. Then, this monstrous facility will become a desert home for NSA codebreakers, hackers, spy agencies, crypto-mathematicians, data miners, counterterrorism specialists, and a multitude of other specialized agencies who will be ... virtually, eavesdropping on peoples' digital communications.

What is the purpose of doing all this? The most popular answer to that question is that this is being done "just to keep us safer" by tracking and countering terrorist plots. That is likely a major part of the reason, but some researchers doubt that claim and believe that there may be more to it than that. I guess only time will tell.

I went ahead and put BOLD on the keywords
they are looking for. You're welcome Smile
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RE: NSA Builds the Biggest Spy Center
September 22, 2013 at 3:24 pm
(September 22, 2013 at 2:28 pm)freedomfromfallacy Wrote: I went ahead and put BOLD on the keywords
they are looking for. You're welcome Smile

You bolded too many words, though ... and people can read so that wasn't necessary.

Do you have a point?
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RE: NSA Builds the Biggest Spy Center
September 22, 2013 at 3:28 pm
I'm unsure of the newsworthiness of a spy agency building a centre dedicated to...spying.

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RE: NSA Builds the Biggest Spy Center
September 22, 2013 at 4:11 pm
(September 22, 2013 at 3:28 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I'm unsure of the newsworthiness of a spy agency building a centre dedicated to...spying.

Newsworthy or not, the more knowledge you have, the better.
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RE: NSA Builds the Biggest Spy Center
September 22, 2013 at 6:08 pm
Quote:Newsworthy or not, the more knowledge you have, the better.

That means your NSA is golden, I suppose.

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RE: NSA Builds the Biggest Spy Center
September 22, 2013 at 6:31 pm
Now you just made a fallacy of exaggeration and a straw man out of my response.

And, it's not "my" NSA.
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