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Sounds like it. Now they just need to make a call to another country in the Five Eyes to get the data.
by agotterer 5y ago
Sounds like it. Now they just need to make a call to another country in the Five Eyes to get the data.
- vmception 5y agoAPI Firehose more like The real question is whether they would use websockets or Protobuf
- willcipriano 5y agoGovernment. At best it's REST but good chance it's SOAP or scripts doing FTP transfers of huge CSV files in the night. My money is on FTP.
- dragonwriter 5y ago> Government. At best it's REST but good chance it's SOAP or scripts doing FTP transfers of huge CSV files in the night. CSV? Fixed-field-width EBCDIC text.
- chasd00 5y agoand about 1/3 getting printed out and faxed and then data entry clerks keying in what comes out of the fax machine on the far side.
- ben_w 5y agoIf they were doing that I wouldn’t even mind too much, because that would force them to focus on the important stuff instead of drag-netting everyone.