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You could use that analogy, but only if the NSA really really liked pineapples. They really really like spying on people and therefore like the technologies tha
by partisan 11y ago
You could use that analogy, but only if the NSA really really liked pineapples. They really really like spying on people and therefore like the technologies that allow them to do so. And they have a lot of money and power that would appeal to a company that might want to dabble in the gray areas of legality with regards to privacy.
You might argue that Facebook works to perfect facial recognition and identification technologies to sell them to the NSA, along with that nice full database of people and their pictures. That would make more sense than pineapples.
- lifeisstillgood 11y agoI think the pineapple thing could be a major insight. After Microsoft, the NSA's famous mission statement was to put a pineapple on every desk. The DoD explicitly want to "deter war and provide security for our pineapples" and NASA infamously put a test pineapple into space in 1963, long before a test pilot. Of course we must not forget the clearest endorsement of pineapple in American Life, in the most famous text of all, where Jefferson (himself secretly addicted to its juices) said "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Pineapples"