Originally Posted by
Phil Thien
Again, just to be clear, he did not write any software that was actually employed by the NSA:
In September 2002, he, along with
J. Kirk Wiebe and
Edward Loomis, asked the U.S. Defense Department to investigate the NSA for allegedly wasting "millions and millions of dollars" on
Trailblazer, a system intended to analyze data carried on communications networks such as the Internet. Binney had been one of the inventors of an alternative system,
ThinThread, which was shelved when Trailblazer was chosen instead.
[Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William...gence_official)]
I sort of wonder if he'd be singing a different song had the NSA gone with his project, instead of his competition's.
I didn't say watch it to be convinced of anything, I said that if you wanted to see an interesting interview. We know your stance Phil, unless one of us provides proof that there's a secret program, you're not going to believe it. I stopped trying to have that conversation 2 days ago with you. I posted this interview because I thought it was a fascinating interview. How you took that guy, and turned him into a bitter person because he didn't get selected for something speaks volumes to me.
I could put 1000 people on here and you'd pick apart every one. I'm done with that conversation and I'm continuing my conversation about privacy by linking to things I think are interesting.
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