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In reply to the discussion: An attempted mind fuck ( otherwise known as psyops) [View all]siligut
(12,272 posts)83. We have a real good idea of the data that will be collected
But this is more than just a data center, says one senior intelligence official who until recently was involved with the program. The mammoth Bluffdale center will have another important and far more secret role that until now has gone unrevealed. It is also critical, he says, for breaking codes. And code-breaking is crucial, because much of the data that the center will handlefinancial information, stock transactions, business deals, foreign military and diplomatic secrets, legal documents, confidential personal communicationswill be heavily encrypted. According to another top official also involved with the program, the NSA made an enormous breakthrough several years ago in its ability to cryptanalyze, or break, unfathomably complex encryption systems employed by not only governments around the world but also many average computer users in the US. The upshot, according to this official: Everybodys a target; everybody with communication is a target.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/all/1
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/all/1
And, if you missed it, the metadata they are collecting and storing forever will be legal to open, breakdown and analyze in 2014, due to the National Defense Authorization Act of 2014:
On May 22, 2013 the Subcommittee on Intelligence, Emerging Threats and Capabilities, one of several Armed Services Committees, met to discuss the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2014. The main subject of the hearing was Sec. 1061, otherwise known as Enhancement of Capacity of the United States Government to Analyze Captured Records. This enhancement provision of NDAA 2014 would effectively create a new intelligence agency, one with the authority to analyze information gained under the Patriot Act, FISA, and known spying programs such as PRISM.
http://truth-out.org/news/item/17070-indefinite-surveillance-say-hello-to-the-national-defense-authorization-act-of-2014
http://truth-out.org/news/item/17070-indefinite-surveillance-say-hello-to-the-national-defense-authorization-act-of-2014
The discussion on DU is here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023057822
I agree, we must not let this happen. Any ideas on how to stop it?
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I was here. I remember it being almost entirely a matter of the content of the leak. Plame herself
patrice
Jun 2013
#3
Sorry, guess I'm not following closely enough. I'm in the middle of a bunch of stuff &
patrice
Jun 2013
#10
He doesn't matter. What has been revealed is shocking and that will remain the focus of those
sabrina 1
Jun 2013
#21
DU is a big place. One sees what one chooses to focus on. It's pretty authoritarian to generalize
patrice
Jun 2013
#6
"traitor" can be a relatively technical reference to what he did, like an "F" on a test, it doesn't
patrice
Jun 2013
#19
And, of course, the same could be true of Snowden opposition. They could pose here as Snowden
patrice
Jun 2013
#35
Yeah, but over the last few years I have learned that's the best course
nadinbrzezinski
Jun 2013
#52
Maybe we should start screaming about what a bastard Snowden was for outing Plame.
napoleon_in_rags
Jun 2013
#7
I would never expect DU to support a member of LP, but choosing Cheney instead?
napoleon_in_rags
Jun 2013
#18
All different kinds of people can have a conscience and still be wrong about something & it can
patrice
Jun 2013
#25
"..it's not about the person, but what was revealed...pay attention to what was leaked."
Dragonfli
Jun 2013
#8
"Any ideas on how to stop it?" No, would that i did. I know how to slow it down however.
Dragonfli
Jun 2013
#95
The problem is that Corps. are Machiavellian, their efforts will always be to give themselves
Dragonfli
Jun 2013
#129
"Private Firms & Private Contractors"...Both having access to use the information
KoKo
Jun 2013
#124
They need to discontinue such practices. We need regulations and enforcers to make them stop.
Dragonfli
Jun 2013
#127
K&R.....States that turn authoritarian always create a propaganda machine
woo me with science
Jun 2013
#17
Not all changes of subject are psyops/propaganda, some of that is integrative activity that may
patrice
Jun 2013
#26
Are those things more important than the topic at hand: the surveillance state
Th1onein
Jun 2013
#103
That is exactly the point! It matters little if the personality distractions come from psyops,
Dragonfli
Jun 2013
#98
And what was leaked, in part, was classified information to China/Russia. You want to talk about NSA
KittyWampus
Jun 2013
#32
So, Snowden leaking secret info is *GOOD*, but Cheney leaking secret info is *BAD*.
baldguy
Jun 2013
#46
I remember Plame very well, and this is not what happened. She was collateral damage to her husband
Hekate
Jun 2013
#70
Nadin, take a deep breath. You've been talking to me lately as though I just showed up here clueless
Hekate
Jun 2013
#104
the effort to distract seems to imply that discussion fora are frightening to TPTB
carolinayellowdog
Jun 2013
#79