Snowden's exact place of work revealed and the future of the NSA

The Future of the NSA

Jim Stone, June 10 2013

Edward Snowden did the world a favor by officially blowing the whistle on what I have said has likely been going on for a while – the recording of every phone call, voice message, text message, financial transaction and any other communication in the nation.  Even though I said this was probably going on for a while, I was still surprised that this was going on for at least 8 years.  Now they got that new data center in Utah, and another in Maryland, both of which are many times more powerful than anything they have ever had.  And I am going to tell you where this is all probably headed.

Where Snowden worked (see my comments following this article) and in case you are new here, I am former NSA and have toured this facility.  To pull this up on Google maps, search Kunia, Oahu.

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If there is one thing we have learned from this, it is that if they can do it they will do it, so this report is going to show you what the capabilities have GOT TO be right now and what to expect from the NSA in the future

1. Recording of all conversations occurring in cars manufactured after 2004 and sold in the United States via an always on cell connection which is built into the engine control computer.  Engine control computers are always placed in the passenger compartment where they can hear everything, though in the past they did not have ears.  The fact that they do now was mandated by the Federal government and became a legally required component of all cars from year 2005 on.  This started in the late 90′s with GM’s Onstar.  You may have seen an onstar commercial where the Onstar representitive is talking to the driver through the radio speakers.  ALL new cars have at least one side of this capability – the outgoing microphone -installed in them NOW.
2. Recording of all conversations happening in the vicinity of a computer equipped with an Intel CoreVPro or Sandy Bridge processor even if it is not “online” and even while “turned off”.  Intel evidently thought it was a good security choice to have full time cell connectivity built into the heart of every CPU they produce, and I bet you don’t know that new Intel laptop you just bought is ALWAYS online, even when turned off.  YOU don’t get to use that connection though, which leaves the question, WHO DOES?
3. All cell phones have been and will continue to be (this started in 2005) in speech to text mode, where the phone listens to nearby conversations, converts them to text, and loads the text to an NSA server during cell phone tower updates which happen frequently during the day as part of normal cell operation.  In the past, whenever they put full time monitoring on cell phones, the batteries would die in a couple of hours and the phone would always be hot. People noticed this, so to circumvent that all cell phones were equipped with speech to text software and though it is not perfect, it still gives pretty good “intelligence” about the user without draining the battery at all.  Once again, as it is with the new Intel processors and their always on cell connection, you don’t even know that software exists
4. Recording of all conversations in the vicinity of computers that are turned on and have an internet connection even if they have no CoreVPro or Sandy Bridge CPU, but that’s old news.
5. Video and sound recording of household activities within view of a Samsung SmartTV, any of the new video gaming consoles, or any smart meter compliant appliance which can communicate with an electrical smart meter.  All electrical smart meters have wifi, 3g, and sometimes 4g connectivity for the sole purpose of “receiving daily energy related instructions”.  Yeah right.
6. Possible now – ALL cell phones which have cameras most likely are, right now, constantly taking a sequence of photos while out in public, and uploading them during cell tower updates to hide battery usage and the cell phone’s owner never realizes this.

People need to recognize the importance of what Edward Snowden did.  He gave us a fixed reference point for what the NSA was capable of in 2005, and from there we can calculate what they can do NOW

Moore’s law, and what it means for the NSA

Most everyone knows about Moore’s law which states that computers will double in power once every 18 months as technology advances.  Moore was partially right, because in reality computers ended up doubling in power more frequently – once every 13 months.  But let’s just use 18 months as a reference standard anyone could agree on.  If in 2005 the NSA was able to record and permanently store every phone conversation, video chat, internet record for everyone, every text, every e-mail, and store it forever BACK THEN, let’s see how many times that capability just went into that NSA data center in Utah.

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