NSA “precomputed contact chaining” enhances phone-record tracking program

Re:NSA “precomputed contact chaining” enhances phone-record ... by sandworm101 on Sunday May 24, 2020 @11:47AM (#23292326)

>> Why do you assume a human has to be involved in the judgement process for it to be taking place?

I don't. A human is not necessary to the process. A human is necessary for the process to be done well. And if the NSA has broken its own encryption, to the extent that it can read past traffic, call the IMU because there are some Field's medals that need handing out.

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Re:NSA “precomputed contact chaining” enhances phone-record ... by anonobviosly on Sunday May 24, 2020 @02:59PM (#23293737)

>Field's medals

The UK equivalent of the NSA invented both RSA encryption and DH key exchange years before any of Diffie, Hellman, Rivest, Shamir, or Adleman did their work. No Fields medal per se, but two Turing awards...

I think the odds that the largest employer of mathematicians in the world is secretly sitting on ground breaking fundamental math is pretty high.

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Re:NSA “precomputed contact chaining” enhances phone-record ... by Lammy on Sunday May 24, 2020 @11:58AM (#23292399)

> A human is necessary for the process to be done well.

That will still happen, but it will happen _after_ AI processes ${HUGE_NUMBER} of data streams simultaneously to pick out the interesting ones. Human intelligence and AI are complementary in this regard. We are better at the fine detail. They are better at the raw throughput and parallelism. Both types of brain working together to spy on you should terrify you.

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