tyler.durden
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This country's going broke, and we are spending billions for the gov't to spy on US? Fuckers...
http://www.tecca.com/news/2012/03/16/nsa-utah-data-center-spying/
[h=1]NSA building top secret spy center in the Utah desert[/h]
[h=2]The creepy new Utah Data Center probably knows you're reading this article right now[/h]
[h=3]by Fox Van Allen | Last updated 1:32PM EDT on March 16, 2012[/h] Filed under: News | Computers
In the quiet mountain town of Bluffdale, Utah, the federal government is fast at work constructing the largest and most complex spy facility in the country. But long gone are the days when the federal government prioritized spying on the Soviet Union. This facility is designed to spy on you.
According to a report appearing in the latest issue of Wired, the data center isn't just turning its attention to the "bad guys" it's sifting through billions of communications between private citizens. The goal, of course, is to intercept suspicious communications between terrorists so it can foil plots. Threats can come from anywhere these days, or so the logic goes, so the government needs to have eyes everywhere.
Because much of what goes on at the new facility, inconspicuously named the Utah Data Center, is classified because it pertains to national security. Still, some information is known: It cost $2 billion to build and will consume $40 million worth of electricity yearly. It will store 100,000 square feet of servers alone, all in an attempt to be able to sift through one yottabyte that's 10^24 bytes of data. (Put into perspective, it was estimated by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt that the sum total of all human knowledge from the beginning of mankind to 2003 totals a mere 1/200,000th of a yottabyte.) And the facility is entirely self-sustaining should the country get rocked by a nuclear attack, the facility will still be able to hum away, collecting our private information. So that's nice.
Predictably, your best encryption methods won't matter the government is hard at work defeating even the best ways of protecting sensitive information. If there's any good news, it's this: You probably don't have to worry about human eyes seeing too many of your conversations. The sheer amount of data being processed by the center will be so massive that there's no feasible way for human eyes to analyze every byte of data that's a job for a computer algorithm. Should your conversations contain any of the federal government's watchwords or otherwise seem suspicious, however, you might find yourself hearing a knock at your door.
http://www.tecca.com/news/2012/03/16/nsa-utah-data-center-spying/
[h=1]NSA building top secret spy center in the Utah desert[/h]
[h=2]The creepy new Utah Data Center probably knows you're reading this article right now[/h]
[h=3]by Fox Van Allen | Last updated 1:32PM EDT on March 16, 2012[/h] Filed under: News | Computers
According to a report appearing in the latest issue of Wired, the data center isn't just turning its attention to the "bad guys" it's sifting through billions of communications between private citizens. The goal, of course, is to intercept suspicious communications between terrorists so it can foil plots. Threats can come from anywhere these days, or so the logic goes, so the government needs to have eyes everywhere.
Because much of what goes on at the new facility, inconspicuously named the Utah Data Center, is classified because it pertains to national security. Still, some information is known: It cost $2 billion to build and will consume $40 million worth of electricity yearly. It will store 100,000 square feet of servers alone, all in an attempt to be able to sift through one yottabyte that's 10^24 bytes of data. (Put into perspective, it was estimated by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt that the sum total of all human knowledge from the beginning of mankind to 2003 totals a mere 1/200,000th of a yottabyte.) And the facility is entirely self-sustaining should the country get rocked by a nuclear attack, the facility will still be able to hum away, collecting our private information. So that's nice.
Predictably, your best encryption methods won't matter the government is hard at work defeating even the best ways of protecting sensitive information. If there's any good news, it's this: You probably don't have to worry about human eyes seeing too many of your conversations. The sheer amount of data being processed by the center will be so massive that there's no feasible way for human eyes to analyze every byte of data that's a job for a computer algorithm. Should your conversations contain any of the federal government's watchwords or otherwise seem suspicious, however, you might find yourself hearing a knock at your door.
