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TAXPAYERS FUNDED DARPA/FACEBOOK TO CREATE SPY TOOl TO SPY ON THEM.
TRAGIC. VERY TRAGIC!
Two decades ago, the US intelligence community worked closely with Silicon Valley in an effort to track citizens in cyberspace. And Google is at the heart of that origin story. Some of the research that led to Google’s ambitious creation was funded and coordinated by a research group established by the intelligence community to find ways to track individuals and groups online.
The intelligence community hoped that the nation’s leading computer scientists could take non-classified information and user data, combine it with what would become known as the internet, and begin to create for-profit, commercial enterprises to suit the needs of both the intelligence community and the public. They hoped to direct the supercomputing revolution from the start in order to make sense of what millions of human beings did inside this digital information network. That collaboration has made a comprehensive public-private mass surveillance state possible today.
The story of the deliberate creation of the modern mass-surveillance state includes elements of Google’s surprising, and largely unknown, origin. It is a somewhat different creation story than the one the public has heard, and explains what Google cofounders Sergey Brin and Larry Page set out to build, and why.
But this isn’t just the origin story of Google: It’s the origin story of the mass-surveillance state, and the government money that funded it.
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DARPA GOOG
DARPA FB
The Massive Digital Data Systems (MDDS) project
MDDS was introduced to several dozen leading computer scientists at Stanford, CalTech, MIT, Carnegie Mellon, Harvard, and others in a white paper that described what the CIA, NSA, DARPA, and other agencies hoped to achieve. The research would largely be funded and managed by unclassified science agencies like NSF, which would allow the architecture to be scaled up in the private sector if it managed to achieve what the intelligence community hoped for.
“Not only are activities becoming more complex, but changing demands require that the IC [Intelligence Community] process different types as well as larger volumes of data,” the intelligence community said in its 1993 MDDS white paper. “Consequently, the IC is taking a proactive role in stimulating research in the efficient management of massive databases and ensuring that IC requirements can be incorporated or adapted into commercial products. Because the challenges are not unique to any one agency, the Community Management Staff (CMS) has commissioned a Massive Digital Data Systems [MDDS] Working Group to address the needs and to identify and evaluate possible solutions.”
Over the next few years, the program’s stated aim was to provide more than a dozen grants of several million dollars each to advance this research concept. The grants were to be directed largely through the NSF so that the most promising, successful efforts could be captured as intellectual property and form the basis of companies attracting investments from Silicon Valley. This type of public-to-private innovation system helped launch powerful science and technology companies like Qualcomm, Symantec, Netscape, and others, and funded the pivotal research in areas like Doppler radar and fiber optics, which are central to large companies like AccuWeather, Verizon, and AT&T today. Today, the NSF provides nearly 90% of all federal funding for university-based computer-science research.
in 1995, one of the first and most promising MDDS grants went to a computer-science research team at Stanford University with a decade-long history of working with NSF and DARPA grants. The primary objective of this grant was “query optimization of very complex queries that are described using the ‘query flocks’ approach.” A second grant—the DARPA-NSF grant most closely associated with Google’s origin—was part of a coordinated effort to build a massive digital library using the internet as its backbone. Both grants funded research by two graduate students who were making rapid advances in web-page ranking, as well as tracking (and making sense of) user queries: future Google cofounders Sergey Brin and Larry Page.
Snowden worked for Clowns prior to NSA. He didn't expose a single DARPA, IQT programs. Snowden came to NSA to leak NSA SURV/COV programs.
Why didn't he expose C_A? He was sent on a mission to damage NSA credibility.
We have had CHINA CHINA CHINA and now its RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA.
MOAR, Q!
RUSSIA was planned location because of COLD WAR rivalry between US and RUSSIA?
NO extradition treaty between US and RUSSIA. - But, if you look at history, the U.S. and Russia have been here before. It goes back to 1893, when the U.S. Senate approved a controversial treaty in which both countries promised to turn over "persons guilty of attempts on the life of a ruler." That extradition treaty is now long forgotten and the U.S. and Russia have no formal agreement. When the U.S. issued an extradition request for Snowden, Russia made that clear and also complained that the U.S. hasn't been friendly when Moscow has made requests. It's complicated, and the U.S. processes hundreds — and in the early 2000s, thousands — of refugee applications from Russians a year. It grants some, rejects others.
>WHEN YOU ARE DIVIDED, YOU ARE WEAK.
WHEN YOU ARE UNITED, YOU ARE STRONG.
>WHEN YOU ARE WEAK, YOU HAVE NO POWER.
WHEN YOU ARE STRONG, YOU HAVE POWER.
>WHEN YOU HAVE NO POWER, YOU HAVE NO CONTROL.
WHEN YOU HAVE POWER, YOU HAVE CONTROL.
POWER TO THE PEOPLE! CONTROL TO THE PEOPLE!
>WHEN YOU ARE DIVIDED, YOU ARE WEAK.
WHEN YOU ARE UNITED, YOU ARE STRONG.
>WHEN YOU ARE WEAK, YOU HAVE NO POWER.
WHEN YOU ARE STRONG, YOU HAVE POWER.
>WHEN YOU HAVE NO POWER, YOU HAVE NO CONTROL.
WHEN YOU HAVE POWER, YOU HAVE CONTROL.
POWER TO THE PEOPLE! CONTROL TO THE PEOPLE!