[ExI] The NSA's new data center

[Eugen Leitl]

On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 11:41:34AM +0200, Stefano Vaj wrote:

> In the meantime, I welcome the spreading of a security culture but not the
> enactment of privacy regulations which only increase informational
> asymmetries and social control in favour of governments in place.

The centralist high-expert-power surveillance approach will always 
beat decentralist many-shallow-eyeballs sousveillance approach.

This is basic infrastructure: if you can vaccuum up the entire
Internet you can collect it centrally, and process it in an
expensive, tightly coupled large scale facility using top of 
the line data mining algorithms, many of them/their implementations 
classified. 

This is why we need rigid laws protecting privacy. Technology
cannot route around broken politics.

As most people here are aware US has basically zero information
privacy laws. This is causing an increasing impedance mismatch in 
transatlantic dealings.