Michael Emrys Posted September 19, 2017 Share Posted September 19, 2017 I just watched this documentary and found it very thought provoking. The plot summary sums it up best: "A Good American tells the story of the best code-breaker the USA ever had and how he and a small team within NSA created a surveillance tool that could pick up any electronic signal on earth, filter it for targets and render results in real-time while keeping the privacy as demanded by the US constitution. The tool was perfect - except for one thing: it was way too cheap. Therefor NSA leadership, who had fallen into the hands of industry, dumped it - three weeks prior to 9/11. In a secret test-run of the program against the pre-9/11-NSA database in early 2002 the program immediately found the terrorists. This is the story of former Technical director of NSA, Bill Binney, and a program called ThinThread." Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger73 Posted September 19, 2017 Share Posted September 19, 2017 Just added it to my Netflix queue. Thanks for recommending. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kettler Posted September 20, 2017 Share Posted September 20, 2017 Michael Emrys, Fantastic tip. Many thanks! Regards, John Kettler 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt.Squarehead Posted September 20, 2017 Share Posted September 20, 2017 Thin-Thread's but the tip of the iceberg, a lot of good men were treated very shabbily in those years. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted September 20, 2017 Author Share Posted September 20, 2017 11 hours ago, Badger73 said: Just added it to my Netflix queue. Thanks for recommending. It is available on Netflix to watch instantly if that should be your preference. Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted September 20, 2017 Author Share Posted September 20, 2017 4 hours ago, Sgt.Squarehead said: Thin-Thread's but the tip of the iceberg, a lot of good men were treated very shabbily in those years. A lot of good men and women are still being treated shabbily by the greedheads. Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt.Squarehead Posted September 20, 2017 Share Posted September 20, 2017 Truth. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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