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Utah Data Center - Should we be concerned?

squerly

squerly

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The Community Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative Data Center, also known as the Utah Data Center, is a data storage facility being built for the United States National Security Agency and Director of National Intelligence that is designed to be a primary storage resource capable of storing data on the scale of yottabytes (one quadrillion gigabytes). Though its precise mission is secret, its purpose — as the name implies — is to support the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative (CNCI).

It is alleged to capture "all forms of communication, including the complete contents of private emails, cell phone calls, and Internet searches, as well as all sorts of personal data trails—parking receipts, travel itineraries, bookstore purchases, and other digital 'pocket litter'." According to the FISA Amendments Act of 2008, the federal government is legally prohibited from collecting, storing, analyzing, or disseminating the content of the communications of US persons, whether inside or outside of the United States, unless authorized by an individual warrant from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.

The planned structure is 1 million or 1.5 million square feet and it is projected to cost from $1.5 billion to $2 billion when finished in September 2013. One report suggested that it will cost another $2 billion for hardware, software, and maintenance. The completed facility is expected to have a power demand of 65 megawatts, costing about $40 million per year. It is located on Camp Williams, near Bluffdale, Utah.

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This monster center will need over $3,000,000.00 a MONTH just to supply its power needs. Doesn't count everything else required to make it tick.

But “this is more than just a data center,” says one senior intelligence official who until recently was involved with the program. The mammoth Bluffdale center will have another important and far more secret role that until now has gone unrevealed. It is also critical, he says, for breaking codes. And code-breaking is crucial, because much of the data that the center will handle—financial information, stock transactions, business deals, foreign military and diplomatic secrets, legal documents, confidential personal communications—will be heavily encrypted. According to another top official also involved with the program, the NSA made an enormous breakthrough several years ago in its ability to cryptanalyze, or break, unfathomably complex encryption systems employed by not only governments around the world but also many average computer users in the US. The upshot, according to this official: “Everybody’s a target; everybody with communication is a target.”
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This is important since they intend to start taxing porn viewing and will need to know just how often folks are watching to levy the proper tax. If I was really worried it would be about all the drone data that will also be stored and analyzed and appropriate agencies notified.:w00t2: They will be able to tell within 1 minute the times Squerly sharts and races to the bathroom as well.
 
Actually, it's a conspiracy by English Teachers. If you'll want to send a secret message, you'll have to hand write it and mail it.
 
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