http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_Wind_(code_name) Stellar Wind is the name of an NSA program to wiretap the Internet. The Internet is being wiretapped at facilities around the country, including a building I walk by every day: 611 Folsom Street where the infamous Room 641A is located: a room where they have installed beam splitters on fiber optic cables servicing massive amounts of commodity Internet traffic.

From there they are sending the captured traffic to a facility in Utah, which has been designed to store data on a "yottabyte" scale:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center They plan to store the captured traffic for up to 100 years, perhaps in hopes that a successful cryptanalysis of the ciphers used to encrypt the data they've stored will allow them to decrypt it in the future. I don't know about you, but this seems bad to me. President Obama has issued an executive order that allows the NSA to spy not just on foreign nationals, but US citizens as well. In effect: the NSA has their eye on the entire world. -- Tony Arcieri _______________________________________________ cryptopolitics mailing list cryptopolitics@randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptopolitics ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE