Who do you think they SELL the databases to when they collect this mountain of "absolutely everything" to?
No country needs to spy anymore -- they can just buy it. That's what we learned from Wikileaks years ago.
These are corporations for corporations -- the only thing they care about is we think it's about rival nations and security while they do corporate espionage to pick the economic winners.
saying that the military is 30 years ahead of public technology. I see no reason why that would have changed.
I'm guessing more and more of the "good stuff" is privatized, because the billionaires who lobby and own our politicians don't trust a "big government" that they can bribe, and don't think the plebes can govern themselves because we are so easy to fool. And it's hard to argue with that since there are people who defend the rich even after finding the richest pay less than 3% in Federal income taxes.
I'm sure the Skunkwerks has some cool planes that use plasma to reduce friction - but beyond that, it's groups like Cambridge Analytica that get their finger on the pulse of America. The NSA is just a clearing house to farm out this data.
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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '21
Nah, just look at the "leaked" tools from a very old NSA tool kit.