Re: PRISM/AP kerfluffle, etc
Posted by
Owen Densmore on
Jul 15, 2013; 3:47pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/The-AP-kerfuffle-tp7583146p7583423.html
I've started following the Snowden/PRISM thing a bit more, and came across this via twitter:
Regardless of opinions on the ethics/legal side, the "collect it all" approach seems just impossible for me to grok. Lets suppose you *did* have all the data generated on the internet every day for the last 20 years. What could you do with it?
I presume they are using specialized hardware, possibly openCL sort of processing via GPU farms. Fine. How would you turn this into a usable tool?
Color me naive, but isn't this a self generated DOS on themselves?
-- Owen
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