After Senate Fails to Extend PATRIOT Act, NSA Begins Shutdown of Bulk Spying Program

[AuH20]

Even if the program was shut down for real (doubtful) instead of faking it for show then the NSA servers would almost certainly be repurposed for encryption breaking.

Correct. What about Main Core?

 

[pcosmar]

Those aren't going to be dismantled.

Inside information?

 

[donnay]

I'd be delusional to believe this. Shadow governments don't answer to us.

We have one who sees!

 

[CPUd]

Even if the program was shut down for real (doubtful) instead of faking it for show then the NSA servers would almost certainly be repurposed for encryption breaking.

They would stay on the SIGINT side; instead of managing new data, they would replay the data they already have to improve on existing detection rules.

 

[DamianTV]

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Oooh! Right in the Gulf of NEW Mexico!

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Patriot Act only made the activities subject to public scrutiny, they are gonna spy regardless if they have the (un)Patriot Act to back them or not. Liar is gonna Lie. Cheater is gonna Cheat. Spies are gonna Spy. Dictators are gonna Dictate, and give not a single shit what the Plebs and Mundanes say about it.

 

[GunnyFreedom]

Of course they are going to keep doing it after it's made illegal. The primary benefit here is that they will no longer be able to initiate ordinary domestic criminal proceedings against people based on this data like they do today, because that would risk exposing a nominally illegal program.