tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235419263414453422.post2121320211675218660..comments2024-02-23T01:30:06.101-08:00Comments on Early Warning: Some Questions on XKeyscoreStuart Stanifordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07182839827506265860noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235419263414453422.post-68685444084341329422013-08-03T13:29:09.411-07:002013-08-03T13:29:09.411-07:00Interesting questions Stuart. The slides do seem t...Interesting questions Stuart. The slides do seem to imply that currently used encryption techniques are now transparent to US intelligence officers. This would mean that (given that PGP is opensource and hence contains no backdoors) they have either sufficiently fast parallel computers OR, even more interesting, a working quantumdecoder.<br /><br />This whole data gathering thing that is going on also makes you think: is data gathering itself now such a big business that it has created a self sustaining industry, just like the police/justice apparatus that sustains itself by keeping drugs illegal. <br /><br />One last thought : if you gather so much intelligence, legally or illegally, that you can say with 100% certainty that "al qaida" will launch an attack againt "us citizens" in august 2013, what good does it do to warn 300 million people? Nobody is going to bother after august 5th, and 100's will kill each other anyway before the month is over with America's distributed WMD : the second amendment :-)Larshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05568919455866439695noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235419263414453422.post-13352713356943878772013-08-02T09:50:34.542-07:002013-08-02T09:50:34.542-07:00The red dots suggest to me that there is one dot f...The red dots suggest to me that there is one dot for each country; note the dot in the middle of Ukraine, Japan, Brazil, etc. <br /><br />Consider also the world map sitting behind Jon Stewart/John Oliver on the Daily Show, which shows random points of light around the globe, with no real meaning to them but the creation of an illusion of reality. There could be some of that here as well.Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12019022092444200334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235419263414453422.post-7954755445520288662013-08-01T13:40:51.751-07:002013-08-01T13:40:51.751-07:00The 25 dots suggest 24 geosynchronous satellites a...The 25 dots suggest 24 geosynchronous satellites and 1 extra.Poechewehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12993793324477905597noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235419263414453422.post-37094609984101900172013-08-01T13:17:14.544-07:002013-08-01T13:17:14.544-07:00The row of red dots - compromised communication sa...The row of red dots - compromised communication satellites ?Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06473623013438755629noreply@blogger.com