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I wonder if, supposing a legit war use, those tools would work. Maybe in taking down some enemy tech infra, but on collecting information, i really have doubts.
by rogerthis 10y ago
I wonder if, supposing a legit war use, those tools would work. Maybe in taking down some enemy tech infra, but on collecting information, i really have doubts. That would be too much data to process unless they had specific targets. Human intelligence would be much more effective.
Anyway, I remember a story of a US submarine that hacked soviet cables in the 70s or 80s.
- rogerthis 10y agoMore, being those tools not effective, development and maintenance is stupid spending, and certainly the tools are having other uses. My conspiracy side looks at CIA like a public sector (state owned) company in Brazil: they are not owned by the government, but by the chaste of unionized workers that work there.
- PKop 10y ago"Deep State" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_state_in_the_United_States https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_state_in_the_United_Sta...
- cancancan 10y ago> Anyway, I remember a story of a US submarine that hacked soviet cables in the 70s or 80s. Operation Ivy Bells https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ivy_Bells https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ivy_Bells One of the tapping devices http://i.imgur.com/PgOJSTp.jpg http://i.imgur.com/PgOJSTp.jpg I believe a few of those devices are on display in some museum in Russia.
- beagle3 10y agoI would suspect that at a time of war, especially in the first few months, there is a lot of tactical info to be collected from whatsapp and Facebook conversations between people and their families ("I'm going to be busy tonight with an operation, but I promise I'll call when I'm back, love"). Whether this can be efficiently processed is a different question, which I believe google can answer affirmatively, and likely also palantir and some TLAs