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On a remote edge of Utah's dry and arid high desert, where temperatures often zoom past 100 degrees, hard-hatted construction workers with top-secret clearances are preparing to build what may become America's equivalent of Jorge Luis Borges's "Library of Babel," a place where the collection of information is both infinite and at the same time monstrous, where the entire world's knowledge is stored, but not a single word is understood. At a million square feet, the mammoth $2 billion structure will be one-third larger than the US Capitol and will use the same amount of energy as every house in Salt Lake City combined.
It's being built by the ultra-secret National Security Agency—which is primarily responsible for "signals intelligence," the collection and analysis of various forms of communication—to house trillions of phone calls, e-mail messages, and data trails: Web searches, parking receipts, bookstore visits, and other digital "pocket litter." Lacking adequate space and power at its city-sized Fort Meade, Maryland, headquarters, the NSA is also completing work on another data archive, this one in San Antonio, Texas, which will be nearly the size of the Alamodome. Just how much information will be stored in these windowless cybertemples? A clue comes from a recent report prepared by the MITRE Corporation, a Pentagon think tank. "As the sensors associated with the various surveillance missions improve," says the report, referring to a variety of technical collection methods, "the data volumes are increasing with a projection that sensor data volume could potentially increase to the level of Yottabytes (1024 Bytes) by 2015."[1] Roughly equal to about a septillion (1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) pages of text, numbers beyond Yottabytes haven't yet been named. Once vacuumed up and stored in these near-infinite "libraries," the data are then analyzed by powerful infoweapons, supercomputers running complex algorithmic programs, to determine who among us may be—or may one day become—a terrorist. In the NSA's world of automated surveillance on steroids, every bit has a history and every keystroke tells a story.
According to a recent Justice Department report, "As of December 31, 2008, the consolidated terrorist watchlist contained more than 1.1 million known or suspected terrorist identities."
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DENSLEY: I'm really excited about the National Security Agency (NSA NSA abbr. National Security Agency Noun 1. NSA - the United States cryptologic organization that coordinates and directs highly specialized activities to protect United States information systems and to produce foreign ) facility. If that center goes the way I think it will as a data center, there could be a huge spin-off The situation that arises when a parent corporation organizes a subsidiary corporation, to which it transfers a portion of its assets in exchange for all of the subsidiary's capital stock, which is subsequently transferred to the parent corporation's shareholders. of other opportunities that grow up around it. It's just really, really exciting to see the potential.
Spies like us: NSA to build huge facility in Utah
It will also require at least 65 megawatts of power -- about the same amount used by every home in Salt Lake City combined. A separate power substation will have to be built at Camp Williams to sustain that demand, said Col. Scott Olson, the Utah National Guard's legislative liaison. Advertisement He noted that there were two significant power corridors that ran though Camp Williams -- a chief factor in the NSA's desire to build there. The NSA bills itself as the home of America's codemakers and codebreakers, but the Department of Defense agency is perhaps better known for its signals intelligence program, which is reported to have the capacity to tap into a significant amount of the world's communications. The agency also has been the subject of significant criticism by civil libertarians, who have accused it of unwarranted monitoring of the communications of U.S. citizens. The NSA's heavily automated computerized operations have for years been based at Fort Meade, Maryland, but the agency began looking to decentralize its efforts following the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
Originally posted by jackflap
reply to post by andy1033
Well I'm certainly not laughing. I do know that it is for real and I feel for you. Are you now out of the situation? Or do they still haunt?
Originally posted by andy1033
Its far worse than all that. I have been monitored with mind control for over 17 years, now. You people have no idea of how bad it is, i reckon. If they have been doing this to me for 17 years, what are the chances that they are not doing this to alot of people, without your knowledge.
Originally posted by KOGDOG
Originally posted by andy1033
Its far worse than all that. I have been monitored with mind control for over 17 years, now. You people have no idea of how bad it is, i reckon. If they have been doing this to me for 17 years, what are the chances that they are not doing this to alot of people, without your knowledge.
17 years... that's all...
Lucky you.
Originally posted by andy1033
Originally posted by KOGDOG
Originally posted by andy1033
Its far worse than all that. I have been monitored with mind control for over 17 years, now. You people have no idea of how bad it is, i reckon. If they have been doing this to me for 17 years, what are the chances that they are not doing this to alot of people, without your knowledge.
17 years... that's all...
Lucky you.
you could swap with me if you want, just have people make up stuff about you.
What i have been through is no laugh, these people use these techs to destroy lifes, and they have not a care in the world, what they do to people.
Nice apathy there, thx