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8. Bruce Schneier: NSA Spying Is Making Us Less Safe...

Mon Sep 23, 2013, 07:58 PM

Sep 2013

...In recent months that newspaper and other media have issued a steady stream of revelations, including the vast scale at which the NSA accesses major cloud platforms, taps calls and text messages of wireless carriers, and tries to subvert encryption.

...We are seeing the NSA collecting data from all of the cloud providers we use: Google and Facebook and Apple and Yahoo, etc. We see the NSA in partnerships with all the major telcos in the U.S., and many others around the world, to collect data on the backbone. We see the NSA deliberately subverting cryptography, through secret agreements with vendors, to make security systems less effective. The scope and scale are enormous...
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/519336/bruce-schneier-nsa-spying-is-making-us-less-safe/

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Booting Up: New NSA Data Farm Takes Root In Utah... [View all] Indi Guy Sep 2013 OP

Shaped like a great curve phallus in the landscape, ready to screw America. NYC_SKP Sep 2013 #1

LOL!!! Adsos Letter Sep 2013 #28

Three orders of magnitude margin of error in their storage estimates. Ahh, tech journalism. (nt) Posteritatis Sep 2013 #2

XKCD had a great "what if" that mentioned this last week Recursion Sep 2013 #16

Yeah - that and the power consumption cut down a lot of the estimates about this thing Posteritatis Sep 2013 #23

...a couple charts so that we all can know the kind of numbers we're talking about here... Indi Guy Sep 2013 #29

It would sound more realistic if they said bloomington-lib Sep 2013 #3

How about We the People put a few independent auditors on the staff seveneyes Sep 2013 #4

Wouldn't be shocked to see them start renting out some of the storage space hughee99 Sep 2013 #5

Bruce Schneier: NSA Spying Is Making Us Less Safe... Indi Guy Sep 2013 #8

It's not a huge leap from accessing those providers to selling them the storage hughee99 Sep 2013 #24

...makes perfect sense to me. Indi Guy Sep 2013 #30

How appropriate to smack it down in the middle of geneology central. Rmoney's wet dream. nt adirondacker Sep 2013 #6

Am I the only person that wants to fly a drone SwankyXomb Sep 2013 #7

How cute. Our very own Stasi compound. PSPS Sep 2013 #9

And the Post Office stores digital images of all your mail. blkmusclmachine Sep 2013 #10

Huh. Underwhelming. That looks smaller than Switch & Data's old center in Reston (nt) Recursion Sep 2013 #11

Does that facility include 100,000 square feet of computer servers... Indi Guy Sep 2013 #12

Yes. It's bigger, in fact. Something like 75% of Internet traffic used to pass through it Recursion Sep 2013 #13

It's not. n/t DisgustipatedinCA Sep 2013 #14

Yes it is. In fact the Equinix Reston datacenter is five times as big, it turns out Recursion Sep 2013 #15

If that's the case then we already have far too many of our tax dollars targeted... Indi Guy Sep 2013 #17

Density. Equinox doesn't draw 65MW DisgustipatedinCA Sep 2013 #19

I said Equinix is "larger", which it is Recursion Sep 2013 #20

So the NSA facility is larger overall. And it draws more power with newer equipment. DisgustipatedinCA Sep 2013 #21

According to the CIO... Indi Guy Sep 2013 #37

Nice that somebody can get money for something arikara Sep 2013 #18

A government interested in feeding the people... Indi Guy Sep 2013 #22

+1 JoeyT Sep 2013 #31

Maybe the place could double as a homeless shelter/soup kitchen. Indi Guy Sep 2013 #32

spy v. spy Generic Other Sep 2013 #25

Gees, I can almost see my house from this aerial shot... defacto7 Sep 2013 #26

Look at the bright side... Indi Guy Sep 2013 #38

Oh, joy. blackspade Sep 2013 #27

10,000 more employees to steal files. Sunlei Sep 2013 #33

Does it have a Star Trek bridge for Gen. Alexander when he visits? jsr Sep 2013 #34

If not, the general can simply... Indi Guy Sep 2013 #35

Red State boondoggle. /nt Ash_F Sep 2013 #36