Why Build a Panopticon When You Can Just Buy One?
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Private industry has built the best surveillance system on the planet, and governments are its customers.
  • blobjim [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    The furor led to the bizarre sight of the NSA head as a keynote speaker at the Black Hat security conference and the shuttering of the program. We all slept easier knowing that one less organization was listening to our phone calls.

    lol is this a straight up lie? The idea that they "shuttered the program" is hilarious.

    • Quimby [any, any]
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      2 years ago

      The standard operating procedure if a classified program gets exposed is to "shutter the program", then restart it with a different name.

      • blobjim [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        And then every single "journalist" remains willfully oblivious that this happens 😑

        • Quimby [any, any]
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          2 years ago

          Well, you see, technically they can't prove that the program was restarted, so it would be "irresponsible journalism" to note that it almost definitely was. :side-eye-1: