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by Mysturji » Fri Sep 06, 2013 10:03 am
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23981291
The NSA is said to spend $250m (£160m) a year on the top secret program.
It is codenamed Bullrun, an American civil war battle, according to the documents published by the Guardian in conjunction with the New York Times and ProPublica.
The British counterpart program is called Edgehill, after the first major engagement of the English civil war, say the documents.
Interesting choice of names for these programs.
It would seem to suggest that these governments consider themselves to be at war with their own people.
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by Clinton Huxley » Fri Sep 06, 2013 10:18 am
The public are also referred to as "adversaries". On the other hand, one of the GCHQ programmes had the codename "Cheesy Name" so at least someone has a sense of humour.
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by Mysturji » Fri Sep 06, 2013 10:22 am
Clinton Huxley wrote:The public are also referred to as "adversaries". On the other hand, one of the GCHQ programmes had the codename "Cheesy Name" so at least someone has a sense of humour.
So that's where BSE came from.
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by Tyrannical » Fri Sep 06, 2013 10:32 am
Bullrun is an odd name, since both battles were Confederate victories
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by klr » Fri Sep 06, 2013 7:34 pm
And to think Prism was only costing them a fraction that amount. Obviously, cracking encryption is expensive business.
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by Azathoth » Fri Sep 06, 2013 7:46 pm
Better algorithm time.
Outside the ordered universe is that amorphous blight of nethermost confusion which blasphemes and bubbles at the center of all infinity—the boundless daemon sultan Azathoth, whose name no lips dare speak aloud, and who gnaws hungrily in inconceivable, unlighted chambers beyond time and space amidst the muffled, maddening beating of vile drums and the thin monotonous whine of accursed flutes.
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by klr » Fri Sep 06, 2013 7:47 pm
It must buy a lot of supercomputers.
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by JimC » Sat Sep 07, 2013 1:06 am
Quantum computing, people!
Entangle those photons!
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by Collector1337 » Sat Sep 07, 2013 9:28 pm
But, when a gun owner says something like this... it's "paranoia."
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by Svartalf » Sat Sep 07, 2013 10:38 pm
So they do manage to crack encryption... in how long? is it practical and cost effective?
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