Re:NSA Owns Everything (2015)
by hindsightbias on Thursday August 13, 2020 @03:19AM
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Puzzle Palace is from 1982. Everyone knew overseas cables were tapped and many peers joked about big brother listening on their long distance domestic calls.
Like life, technology always finds a way. Much of the talk back in the day was not based on reality because it was not based on what tech could practically do. The compute and storage weren’t there.
But it was pretty obvious by the late aughts that all the pieces for panopticon were coming together nicely. Tech finds a way.
Like life, technology always finds a way. Much of the talk back in the day was not based on reality because it was not based on what tech could practically do. The compute and storage weren’t there.
But it was pretty obvious by the late aughts that all the pieces for panopticon were coming together nicely. Tech finds a way.