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There's this great line in Dataclysm (written by the guy who wrote the OkCupid blog) about how the NSA recruited from the best math students at Harvard. "The pe
by nether 12y ago
There's this great line in Dataclysm (written by the guy who wrote the OkCupid blog) about how the NSA recruited from the best math students at Harvard. "The people spying on us are extremely, extremely smart."
- theoh 12y agoDon't we generally assume that the NSA hires math guys for math purposes, not surveillance purposes?
- peterkelly 12y agoWhat do you think they use the math for?
- theoh 12y agoMy point is that mathematicians are not necessarily or even probably a good fit for intelligence analysis ("spying"). I wouldn't describe the stuff NSA mathematicians ostensibly get up to as spying. See this for example: https://www.nsa.gov/careers/career_fields/mathematics.shtml https://www.nsa.gov/careers/career_fields/mathematics.shtml
- serf 12y agowell, the scary part is that those maths purposes are being deployed for surveillance reasons. William Binney comes to mind