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"This means giving some people on the engineering team exact information about what the system will be used for." Yeah, well, remember there were at least a co
by TheRealDunkirk 8y ago
"This means giving some people on the engineering team exact information about what the system will be used for."
Yeah, well, remember there were at least a couple people who went around installing fiber replicators for AT&T to tap the entire internet for the NSA, and they managed to keep that a secret for a LONG time.
- gaius 8y agoGive that job to the military and it can remain secret for a long time. A signals regiment could have done that job with no leaks, even more so if they were SF.
- icebraining 8y agoNot really, it only lasted three years (started in '03, and was exposed by Mark Klein in '06). And more generally, that communications were being spied upon by the NSA was public information for a long time. I first learned about it in a Spanish tech magazine back in 2000 or so (the great HackxCrack), but by then it was old news.