May. 11th, 2014

thewayne: (Cyranose)
Thus spoke General Michael Hayden, former director of the NSA and the CIA. Metadata is information about information, in this case, collecting metadata about phone calls. It knows A called B on a certain date and time and for a certain amount of time. It then can go out 2-3 hops, A<->B is one, B then calls C is 2, C calls D E and F for three. So A never talks to F, but they are indelibly associated, so if one is labeled a terrorist, there's an extremely high chance the other is. But maybe it's just a neighborhood pizza joint that delivers.

And with every drone strike we radicalize more people to become terrorists, and we've given them an exceptionally bright and clear target: the USA. I guess winning hearts and minds is too wussy these days.

http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2014/may/10/we-kill-people-based-metadata/
thewayne: (Cyranose)
The one thing that I don't see mentioned in the articles that I've seen on this is a mention of plate tectonics and earthquake zones. Based on the occasional report of Chinese bullet train wrecks and bridges collapsing from shoddy work and cost-cutting/fraud, I would not want to ride in such a tunnel.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/05/09/china-may-build-an-undersea-train-to-america/
thewayne: (Cyranose)
I can sympathize with them, when you're dealing with botnets and distributed enterprises and such, it can be hard to conduct an effective criminal investigation. But I don't know that giving them carte blanch to go on a hacking rampage is the solution.

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9248242/DOJ_seeks_new_authority_to_hack_and_search_remote_computers

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