Project Stellar Wind

Published:

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/all/1

But “this is more than just a data center,” says one senior intelligence official who until recently was involved with the program. The mammoth Bluffdale center will have another important and far more secret role that until now has gone unrevealed. It is also critical, he says, for breaking codes. And code-breaking is crucial, because much of the data that the center will handle—financial information, stock transactions, business deals, foreign military and diplomatic secrets, legal documents, confidential personal communications—will be heavily encrypted. According to another top official also involved with the program, the NSA made an enormous breakthrough several years ago in its ability to cryptanalyze, or break, unfathomably complex encryption systems employed by not only governments around the world but also many average computer users in the US. The upshot, according to this official: “Everybody’s a target; everybody with communication is a target.”

No one in power will ever abuse their access to this information.  Roll Eyes

http://www.thenewamerican.com/tech-mainmenu-30/computers/11246-nsas-stellar-wind-cover-is-blown

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Comments

Avatar Rick G -
#1
"Everybody's a target"

Psychopaths running amok. And we're the dangerous ones??
Avatar time*treat -
#2
Well, you gotta be able to end run any revenue producing "Trumans" who might want to escape.
Without them, the show's over. No?
Avatar time*treat -
#3
Guess FB wasn't getting the job done fast enough? ;-)

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