{"id":6555,"date":"2009-10-24T20:08:27","date_gmt":"2009-10-25T02:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oooorgle.com\/wordpress\/?p=6555"},"modified":"2016-10-24T06:12:18","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T13:12:18","slug":"whos-in-big-brothers-database","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/whos-in-big-brothers-database\/","title":{"rendered":"Who&#8217;s in Big Brother&#8217;s Database?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/23231\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/images\/HiddenFaces.png\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" \/>NYBooks.com<\/a> | On a remote edge of Utah&#8217;s dry and arid high desert, where temperatures often zoom past 100 degrees, hard-hatted construction workers with top-secret clearances are preparing to build what may become America&#8217;s equivalent of Jorge Luis Borges&#8217;s &#8220;Library of Babel,&#8221; a place where the collection of information is both infinite and at the same time monstrous, where the entire world&#8217;s knowledge is stored, but not a single word is understood. At a million square feet, the mammoth $2 billion structure will be one-third larger than the US Capitol and will use the same amount of energy as every house in Salt Lake City combined.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike Borges&#8217;s &#8220;labyrinth of letters,&#8221; this library expects few visitors. It&#8217;s being built by the ultra-secret National Security Agency\u2014which is primarily responsible for &#8220;signals intelligence,&#8221; the collection and analysis of various forms of communication\u2014to house trillions of phone calls, e-mail messages, and data trails: Web searches, parking receipts, bookstore visits, and other digital &#8220;pocket litter.&#8221; Lacking adequate space and power at its city-sized Fort Meade, Maryland, headquarters, the NSA is also completing work on another data archive, this one in San Antonio, Texas, which will be nearly the size of the Alamodome. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/23231\" target=\"_blank\">Read Entire Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>By Matthew M. Aid<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYBooks.com | On a remote edge of Utah&#8217;s dry and arid high desert, where temperatures often zoom past 100 degrees, hard-hatted construction workers with top-secret clearances are preparing to build what may become America&#8217;s equivalent of Jorge Luis Borges&#8217;s &#8220;Library of Babel,&#8221; a place where the collection of information is both infinite and at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[294],"tags":[36,76],"class_list":["post-6555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-police-state","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}