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2014-09-29 Science & Technology

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Posted by Steve White 2014-09-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 "It does stuff." - DoD

Posted by DarthVader 2014-09-29 00:15|| 2014-09-29 00:15|| Front Page Top

#2 I'm betting Muslim outreach.
That and targeting data on conservatives.

Posted by ed in texas 2014-09-29 07:25|| 2014-09-29 07:25|| Front Page Top

#3 X-37B is shuttling Cool-Aid and Neapolitan Ice Cream to the Alien Armada lurking on the Dark Side of the Moon.

Its part of the PRISM Project, launched by the DOD under the Carter Administration....

Well, its as good an answer as any...

Posted by Thrusoting Crase3152 2014-09-29 09:49|| 2014-09-29 09:49|| Front Page Top

#4 In the Carter years it was called ECHELON, originally a code-name, is now used in global media and in popular culture to describe a signals intelligence (SIGINT) collection and analysis network operated on behalf of the five signatory nations to the UKUSA Security Agreement (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States, referred to by a number of abbreviations, including AUSCANNZUKUS and Five Eyes.

Recently, it is called PRISM a clandestine mass electronic surveillance data mining program launched in 2007 by the National Security Agency (NSA), with participation from an unknown date by the British equivalent agency, GCHQ. PRISM is a government code name for a data-collection effort known officially by the SIGAD US-984XN....On June 19, 2013, U.S. President Barack Obama, during a visit to Germany, stated that the NSA's data gathering practices constitute "a circumscribed, narrow system directed at us being able to protect our people."

But he did not say to protect our people from whom !

Posted by Thrusoting Crase3152 2014-09-29 10:02|| 2014-09-29 10:02|| Front Page Top

#5 The Logo and The Doughnut:

Posted by Thrusoting Crase3152 2014-09-29 10:11|| 2014-09-29 10:11|| Front Page Top

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