-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 2013.06.25 04.32, Eugen Leitl wrote: > On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 09:08:59PM -0300, hellekin wrote: >>> They are ramping such a system up but it isn't in place yet, >>> remember, they are firing 600 people in the following years. >>> >> *** I guess you mean: outsourcing to the private sector. > > The budgets in general will shrink a lot in the coming years, > whether black, or not. There's only that much parasite load a given > host can bear, especially if energy intake is going down. > > It might be well the last big splurge in sigint, and they will have > to let many analysts go. The data might be still collected, for a > while, before the number of tap points goes down to attrition, but > less and less can be made from it. > > Perhaps we're witnessing Peak Spook.
While I love this notion, I see absolutely no evidence for it in any way. I think we're going to see the opposite -- surveillance is still getting cheaper, fast, and I don't see much real sign of the big players cutting their budgets. While I don't know that they'll be able to achieve the same kind of geopolitical reach that the NSA has, I'd assume that most country's internal police will be looking to reach a similar pervasiveness of surveillance. E. - -- Ideas are my favorite toys. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) iF4EAREIAAYFAlHJrGgACgkQQwkE2RkM0wr9rQD6Amb2dwibQ3ztHaLgdq5UWAf7 8cFFWXIdsTuXFFDmp2wA/R5hgIY6/yPdvWebt8zinbcH+8ycPbc9M120MyYrjPtc =oi8v -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
