Ok...look...i have been working at <company in Milpitas, Ca> for a couple of years (tadah!)
On something related on the "internet of all the things" idea (yes...the next step in human surveillance! having machines provided with sensors all over your town, house and so on, connected with your phone, your electricity line, whateva).
:D
Ok, so...i've seen the data flow. I've seen the servers workload. I've even seen firsthand the devices that are to be installed all over the place.
Yes sure i might be wrong.
And yes sure, after all the Indian green card guys (God bless them all, best ppl in the world) of my team having done all the hard work, everything might be handled to some secret Gov agency (good luck to read through the documentation and my spaghetti code).
I mean....honestly...
I still prefer the hypothesis of the "global hysteria handling through funny stories" more than the actual surveillance thing ("if you can't make it fake it", in NSA the biggest positions must be covered by novelists, i think is much more profitable).
On a side note: i indeed have an imaginary "NSA controller" friend that i talk to every time i do something..."interesting" at home (writing novels, expressing opinions, not even sex is so fun at my place) but i believe we got to understand each other :D.
I honestly got to the conclusion that by now they know that none of us is really "dangerous" (unless they plan a bombing or a mass murdering and...well, they don't catch those very well...or our country is leaking crazies all over the place and those few we see are just the few leaking through the cracks...it might be).
And then how dangerous?
USA is a big corp where democracy runs on startups/big corps and so on. None of us cares about politics bc politics count ...well...zero (see last 8 years of presidential tenure, with all the respect of the most sexy smart beautiful intelligent first lady ever).
So who is "ideologically" so dangerous that calls for global surveillance?
Socialists?
Hackers?
Nah...
Psycological Warfare.
And (also to my friendly NSA controller sake) is something i humbly respect because the results have been astonishingly fantastic.
God Bless America
PS: i hope those Saturn rockets were also delivering fake landers on moon's surface. That would have been the cherry upon the pie.
Edited by amara bin, 03 June 2014 - 07:58 PM.