XKeyscore rules - technology utilized
Georgi Guninski
guninski at guninski.com
Fri Jul 4 09:07:05 PDT 2014
Another question:
How much traffic they are monitoring with these definitions?
All visible?
Almost all except the u$a?
I suspect the above will require quite
large hardware.
I suppose this is a matter of importance
for the dear NSA.
To paraphrase a Susan Sontag quote [1]
``Most people in this society who aren't actively terrorists are,
at best, reformed or potential terrorists.''
[1] http://thinkexist.com/quotation/most_people_in_this_society_who_aren-t_actively/220423.html
On Fri, Jul 04, 2014 at 04:38:20PM +0200, Nathan Andrew Fain wrote:
> Based on the xkeyscore rules does anyone have some idea of the
> technology being utilized?
>
> Looking at the mapreduce::plugin definition I get the impression
> Hadoop is in use. Hadoop provides a stream interface for Map Reduce
> functions letting one utilize any program or language of their
> choosing [1-example]. Can with more knowledge of distributed data
> technologies confirm this?
>
> 1.
> http://cs.smith.edu/dftwiki/index.php/Hadoop_Tutorial_2.2_--_Running_C++_Programs_on_Hadoop
> see also slide 5:
> http://cecs.wright.edu/~tkprasad/courses/cs707/ProgrammingHadoop.pdf
> <quote>
> cat input | grep | sort | unique -c | cat > output
> Input | Map | Shuffle & Sort | Reduce | Output
> </quote>
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