SeaNymph wrote:
> On 3/18/2012 6:32 AM, Bullwinkle wrote:
>> "We Are This Far From A Turnkey Totalitarian State" - Big Brother Goes
>> Live
>> September 2013
>>
>>
>>
>> George Orwell was right. He was just 30 years early.
>>
>> In its April cover story, Wired has an exclusive report on the NSA's Utah
>> Data Center, which is a must read for anyone who believes any privacy is
>> still a possibility in the United States: "A project of immense
>> secrecy, it
>> is the final piece in a complex puzzle assembled over the past decade.
>> Its
>> purpose: to intercept, decipher, analyze, and store vast swaths of the
>> world's
>> communications as they zap down from satellites and zip through the
>> underground and undersea cables of international, foreign, and domestic
>> networks.... Flowing through its servers and routers and stored in
>> near-bottomless databases will be all forms of communication,
>> including the
>> complete contents of private emails, cell phone calls, and Google
>> searches,
>> as well as all sorts of personal data trails-parking receipts, travel
>> itineraries, bookstore purchases, and other digital "pocket
>> litter."... The
>> heavily fortified $2 billion center should be up and running in September
>> 2013." In other words, in just over 1 year, virtually anything one
>> communicates through any traceable medium, or any record of one's
>> existence
>> in the electronic medium, which these days is everything, will
>> unofficially
>> be property of the US government to deal with as it sees fit.
>>
>> The codename of the project: Stellar Wind.
>>
>
> It's not that nobody cares, it's that not many people even realize this
> is going on. The secrecy part has been well kept, until recently. I had
> not heard of this until yesterday when my son was complaining about it.
> Read it and weep.
>
> http://www.deseretnews.com/article/7...under-way.html
>
>
> http://rt.com/news/utah-data-center-spy-789/


Why don't you discuss any of this 'stuff' with your husband - who *you*
have described as a 'deep software engineer'?

Maybe he is *part* of it! ;-)


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for what you definitely are not." "Do unto others as you would have them
do unto you."