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Point being the NSA is collecting a lot of noise.
by riprowan 10y ago
Point being the NSA is collecting a lot of noise.
- benevol 10y ago> a lot of noise Which will simply be filtered out. Technology does not just evolve linearly.
- maze-le 10y ago> Which will simply be filtered out These were the last words of the database admin before he went stark raving mad... But seriously "filtering out" is a goddamnd hard problem, if the dimensionality of your problem space is high enough. You are talking about filtering out sockpuppets like if they have a tcp-flag on it. Even the best trained Neural Network can only work as good as the input-training parameters, and classifying large texts in natural language is still one of hardest problems (even for humans).
- dandelion_lover 10y agoThere are no time limits. The complexity may be a problem now, but later the collected data will reveal anything they want about you.
- TheSoftwareGuy 10y ago>There are no time limits. Yes there are, eventually you need to make a decision about whether to let this person into the country
- benevol 10y agoHere's how it works: Data (even encrypted data) is being collected and stored today. It is decrypted/made sense of whenever technology has reached the required maturity. At that moment, we become 100% open books. And you may feel that at the border (or elsewhere).
- CaptSpify 10y agoIsn't one of these problems that these orgs are facing is that their signal-to-noise is too rough to work with? I thought they had info about the boston bomber, 9/11 hijackers, and san bernadino shooter, but didn't act on it because it was lost in the noise?
- Retric 10y agoTechnology evolves sub linearly over long time scales.