Tag Archive for NSA

Butterfly in the Sky the PRISM Rainbow

So I have questions about PRISM.
1) As a software developer I want to know what platforms and tools the gov is using, that is a lot of data to store and parse so it would benefit the community to know how to do it. It is Java? .NET or cough cough PHP :-) What are they using to store this data, RDMS NoSQL Berkley DB?
2) So this work is likely farmed out to contractors is there an agreement among the contractors that they don’t spy on each other? Does company A take steps to make sure that company B isn’t listening in on their conference calls about their responses to RFPs?

Surveillance in the shadow of the Capitol.

Surveillance in the shadow of the Capitol.

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Encryption, Privacy Settings and Unintended Consequences

Public key encryption was being thrown around by the gov at least 10 years earlier.

Facebook has new privacy settings

The unintended consequences of government snooping or what’s good for the goose is good for the gander.

Eat a dick

Eat a dick

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What has Changed?

Explained in terms even children can understand.

When I was a kid spying on your own people was something only the bad guys like the KGB and Stasi did. We were good guys because we’d never do mass surveillance on our citizens.

What has changed to make spying on everyone okay?

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