On 1/2/13 8:27 AM, Gregory Foster wrote:

Within the first minute of his talk (~1:28:36), William Binney describes the legal and intellectual property guidance he received when retiring from the NSA to set the scene for an announcement that he has created a "commercial product" which describes a software architecture akin to ThinThread:

Reading from the Wikipedia's relevant page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThinThread about the software the NSA's folks was trying to use, it seems much like that today they would be just making/using a Palantir's plug-in (http://www.palantir.com/) to do so, connected to the right set of databases . It would be nice a FOIA request to know which kind software and/or software manufacturer get used by US Security Agencies in handling "phone call logs" and/or "email logs" and/or "mobile phone's location data" . We may spot the company where are the NSA's whistleblowers of tomorrow ;-) -naif -- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech ----- 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