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"NSA can spy on offline computers wirelessly, says security expert"
NSA can spy on offline computers wirelessly, says security expert - CBS News
The idea that NSA information gathering is a new thing is remarkably uninformed. Consider the technological ability of the intelligence community, much less its value, and be amazed...and the possible harm.
1. The Prosecutor's Management Information System (PROMIS) is a database system developed by Inslaw Inc., a Washington, D.C.-based,information technology company....during the 1970s.... PROMIS has the ability to track people... with a staggering 570,000 lines of computer code, PROMIS can integrate innumerable databases without requiring any reprogramming... information, when wielded with finesse, begets power. Converted to use by intelligence agencies, as has been alleged in interviews by ex-CIA and Israeli Mossad agents, PROMIS can be a powerful tracking device capable of monitoring intelligence operations, agents and targets, instead of legal cases.
There's a Department of Justice database, a CIA database, an Attorney's General database, an IRS database, and so on, but none of them can share information. That makes tracking multiple offenders pretty darn difficult, and building cases against them a long and bureaucratic task.Along comes a computer program that can integrate all these databases.
Prosecutor's Management Information System - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
2. Since its inception, software programs have progressed substantially with the addition of artificial intelligence, allowing the program to actually anticipate, using the information it acquires.
"...adept at accessing proprietary corporate databases like those of banks, credit card companies, and electric, water and gas utilities. ...building amazing relationship trees outlining exactly who knows or who interacts with whom.
For example, if you were the subject of an investigations and you started using more water or electricity, it would suspect that you had people staying with you.
It would then search through all your phone records and emails, looking for any of your contacts that had suddenly stopped or reduced their usage of specific utilities, and suggest that they might be the ones at your house.
This would be backed up with credit card transactions showing train or plane ticket purchases, gasoline, et cetera.
PROMIS would then focus on these people and pull up all of their records,....all hints of a conspiracy that might exist..."
From the novel "Full Black," by Brad Thor.
3. "What would you do if you possessed software that could think, understand every language in the world, that provided peep holes into everyone else's computer "dressing rooms," that could insert data into computers without people's knowledge, that could fill in blanks beyond human reasoning and also predict what people would do - before they did it?
Mated with artificial intelligence it is capable of analyzing not only an individuals, but also a communitys entire life, in real time. It is also capable of issuing warnings when irregularities appear and of predicting future movements based upon past behavior. THE WAR ON YOU: U.S. GOVERNMENT TARGETING OF AMERCIAN DISSIDENTS - Part II
4. Targets of inquiries "couldn't move anywhere without Big Brother watching them. Even if they traveled under a false name, various characteristics, such as height, hair color, age, were fed into roadside terminals and Promis searched through its database looking for a common denominator. It would be able to tell an army commander that a certain dissident who was in the north three days before had caught a train, then a bus, stayed at a friend's house, and was now on the road under a different name." What is PROMIS? - CKA
Gives a whole new meaning to " Oh, you better watch out, you better not cry
You better not pout, I'm telling you why... making a list and checking it twice He's gonna find out who's naughty or nice..."
NSA can spy on offline computers wirelessly, says security expert - CBS News
The idea that NSA information gathering is a new thing is remarkably uninformed. Consider the technological ability of the intelligence community, much less its value, and be amazed...and the possible harm.
1. The Prosecutor's Management Information System (PROMIS) is a database system developed by Inslaw Inc., a Washington, D.C.-based,information technology company....during the 1970s.... PROMIS has the ability to track people... with a staggering 570,000 lines of computer code, PROMIS can integrate innumerable databases without requiring any reprogramming... information, when wielded with finesse, begets power. Converted to use by intelligence agencies, as has been alleged in interviews by ex-CIA and Israeli Mossad agents, PROMIS can be a powerful tracking device capable of monitoring intelligence operations, agents and targets, instead of legal cases.
There's a Department of Justice database, a CIA database, an Attorney's General database, an IRS database, and so on, but none of them can share information. That makes tracking multiple offenders pretty darn difficult, and building cases against them a long and bureaucratic task.Along comes a computer program that can integrate all these databases.
Prosecutor's Management Information System - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
2. Since its inception, software programs have progressed substantially with the addition of artificial intelligence, allowing the program to actually anticipate, using the information it acquires.
"...adept at accessing proprietary corporate databases like those of banks, credit card companies, and electric, water and gas utilities. ...building amazing relationship trees outlining exactly who knows or who interacts with whom.
For example, if you were the subject of an investigations and you started using more water or electricity, it would suspect that you had people staying with you.
It would then search through all your phone records and emails, looking for any of your contacts that had suddenly stopped or reduced their usage of specific utilities, and suggest that they might be the ones at your house.
This would be backed up with credit card transactions showing train or plane ticket purchases, gasoline, et cetera.
PROMIS would then focus on these people and pull up all of their records,....all hints of a conspiracy that might exist..."
From the novel "Full Black," by Brad Thor.
3. "What would you do if you possessed software that could think, understand every language in the world, that provided peep holes into everyone else's computer "dressing rooms," that could insert data into computers without people's knowledge, that could fill in blanks beyond human reasoning and also predict what people would do - before they did it?
Mated with artificial intelligence it is capable of analyzing not only an individuals, but also a communitys entire life, in real time. It is also capable of issuing warnings when irregularities appear and of predicting future movements based upon past behavior. THE WAR ON YOU: U.S. GOVERNMENT TARGETING OF AMERCIAN DISSIDENTS - Part II
4. Targets of inquiries "couldn't move anywhere without Big Brother watching them. Even if they traveled under a false name, various characteristics, such as height, hair color, age, were fed into roadside terminals and Promis searched through its database looking for a common denominator. It would be able to tell an army commander that a certain dissident who was in the north three days before had caught a train, then a bus, stayed at a friend's house, and was now on the road under a different name." What is PROMIS? - CKA
Gives a whole new meaning to " Oh, you better watch out, you better not cry
You better not pout, I'm telling you why... making a list and checking it twice He's gonna find out who's naughty or nice..."