This is pretty crazy. Although it's not being covered by the major media outlets at the moment, Wikileaks just revealed a huge "big brother" surveillance project that is alive and active across the country...
Wikileaks has been under massive (10GB per second) distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks since revealing the leak.
Former senior intelligence officials have created a detailed surveillance system more accurate than modern facial recognition technology — and have installed it across the US under the radar of most Americans, according to emails hacked by Anonymous.
Every few seconds, data picked up at surveillance points in major cities and landmarks across the United States are recorded digitally on the spot, then encrypted and instantaneously delivered to a fortified central database center at an undisclosed location to be aggregated with other intelligence. It’s part of a program called TrapWire and it's the brainchild of the Abraxas, a Northern Virginia company staffed with elite from America’s intelligence community
Source: http://rt.com/usa/news/stratfor-trapwir ... leaks-313/
So we have a widespread network of surveillance cameras across America monitoring us and reporting suspicious activity back to a centralized analysis center, mixed in with the ability to imprison people via military force on the basis of suspicious activity alone. I don't see how that could possibly go wrong. Nope, not at all. We all know the government, and algorithmic computer programs, never make mistakes.
Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/trapwire ... z23OBKBt9G
Yikes!
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I'd be willing to bet that the "undisclosed location" is the NSAs new data center in Salt Lake City, UT. Centrally located to most of the US, it makes sense. They've been hiring thousands of computer engineers/surveillance monkeys for years now.
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This is just the kind of story that I always expect to gain a bunch of steam and be all over the mainstream news within a few days. I usually soon find myself disappointed.
I wonder if high school students are still reading Orwell's 1984, or if it has been replaced with one of the Twlight series books.
Simonjester wrote:
we had both 1984 and animal farm in high-school, i wouldn't be in the least bit surprised to find out it was replaced ... for the hand full of high-school students that have actually been taught how to read..
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