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The intelligence apparatus of a nation-state is far more encompassing than just spies. And no one has to actually watch any videos for the above-mentioned use
by cosmie 6y ago
The intelligence apparatus of a nation-state is far more encompassing than just spies.
And no one has to actually watch any videos for the above-mentioned use cases. It's an engineering assignment for data science and tech teams, not spies.
As well, there's a very hazy line between government and industry interests in China, greatly expanding the potential use cases of sigint derived from such incidental data leakage beyond just what would be useful for kompromat, bribery, and threat. purposes.
- jimsmart 6y agoIndeed, spies are just a single tool and have a very specific use cases — big-data, analytics and data science is where the big nation states are at nowadays. We don't know much about China's systems here, but looking at XKeyscore [0] (NSA, via Snowden leaks) is likely to be somewhat insightful re function and capabilities. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XKeyscore https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XKeyscore