FUTUREPREDICTIONS.COM Source of Likely and Preferable Futures ™ » NSA http://futurepredictions.com FUTUREPREDICTIONS.COM MISSION IS TO ORGANIZE THE WORLD'S FUTURISTS, FUTUROLOGISTS, PREDICTIONS, INNOVATIONS, AND FORECASTS TO MAKE THEM EASILY ACCESSIBLE. Tue, 22 May 2012 04:49:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Future: Yottabytes of Data Fills NSA Cloud Monitoring the Global Information Grid http://futurepredictions.com/2012/03/future-yottabytes-of-data-fills-the-nsa-cloud-monitoring-the-global-information-grid/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=future-yottabytes-of-data-fills-the-nsa-cloud-monitoring-the-global-information-grid http://futurepredictions.com/2012/03/future-yottabytes-of-data-fills-the-nsa-cloud-monitoring-the-global-information-grid/#comments Thu, 22 Mar 2012 21:41:21 +0000 futurepredictions http://futurepredictions.com/?p=13512 The NSA is storing all global communications as they add a $2 Billion Total Awareness Utah Center to the cloud, and promise that one day the Yottabytes of Big Data will be deciphered.


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What is the NSA building? Cascade to be the fastest most powerfuL computer in the world designed to decipher stored data!

  • WHO AUTHORIZED THIS PROJECT?
  • WHAT IS A YOTTABYTE?

The following is the letter sent to the President of the United States supporting the development of the NSA program to monitor the Global Information Grid.

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Dear Mr. President:

We write to you to ask for your continued support and leadership to advance the Department of Energy’s (DOE) exascale computing initiative. America’s leadership in high performance computing (HPC) is essential to a vast range of national priorities in science, energy, environment, health, and national security.

U.S. leadership in HPC is threatened by strategic governmental investments in HPC programs in China, Japan, South Korea, Russia, and the European Union. In November 2010 the most powerful U.S. supercomputer was unseated and now ranks only third in the world behind computers from Japan and China. These foreign governments have recognized the crucial role HPC plays in both developing new technologies and increasing efficiencies in existing systems — leadership in HPC means greater economic competitiveness and national security.

For decades the U.S. was the leader in HPC through collaborative efforts led by the DOE between national laboratories, academia, and industry. Investments in HPC have enabled extraordinary scientific and technical advances in support of DOE’s mission priorities and many Federal agencies, including the Department of Defense, the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Health, the Department of Homeland Security, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association, rely heavily on supercomputing and advances in HPC.

Now, the race is on to develop exascale computing capabilities — supercomputers 1000 times more powerful than the fastest computers today. This will require the development of new computer architectures with improved power consumption, memory, reliability, and software. As with previous generations of HPC systems, the resulting technological advances will further support Federal priorities like energy research and national security and will be integrated into electronics industries strengthening high-tech competitiveness and driving economic growth.

The U.S. cannot afford to cede leadership in HPC, and the DOE has embarked on a program that again combines the talents of the national laboratories, academia, and industry to develop exascale computing capabilities by the year 2020. Due to the competitive nature of HPC and the progress and governmental support foreign competitors are enjoying, it is critical that the U.S. not delay its exascale computing efforts.

We commend you for the support of exascale computing you have already shown by requesting the initial funding in the FY2012 Budget Request. Given the strong support our global competitors are receiving, it is imperative that the U.S. continue to commit resources to remain competitive in the HPC race to exascale capability.

We encourage you to continue your support of the DOE exascale computing initiative through a request in the FY2013 Budget Request.

The following senators signed this letter:

Lamar Alexander (R-TN)
Jeff Bingaman (D-NM)
John Boozman (R-AR)
Barbara Boxer (D-CA)
Scott Brown (R-MA)
Maria Cantwell (D-WA)
Christopher Coons (D-DE)
Bob Corker (R-TN)
Richard Durbin (D-IL)
Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)
Al Franken (DFL-MN)
Kristen Gillibrand (D-NY)
Kay Hagan (D-NC)
Mark Kirk (R-IL)
Herb Kohl (D-WI)
Amy Klobuchar (DFL-MN)
Jon Kyl (R-AZ)
Carl Levin (D-MI)
Jeff Merkley (D-OR)
Patty Murray (D-WA)
Bernard Sanders (I-VT)
Charles Schumer (D-NY)
Tom Udall (D-NM)
Ron Wyden (D-OR)


Who is leading the NSA today John C. (Chris) Inglis?

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will fuse commercial databases, public databases, and intelligence data
and had meetings with TIA developers.

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PENTAGON CONTEMPLATES CYBER WAR OFFENSE FIRST STRIKE

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, held its first-ever symposium to discuss how the U.S. military can better protect itself from foreign-backed hackers. DARPA’s director, Regina Dugan, told conference members the agency will work to develop offensive cyber capabilities.

Hostile governments can now cripple power grids, water supplies, even nuclear facilities without firing a single shot. Creating a national catastrophe has never been easier. And the new weapon of choice for the world’s terrorists is the humble laptop.
[Via: Forbes.com]

SO WHAT IS THE PENTAGON DOING ABOUT IT, THIS REPORT EXPLORES?

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“US intelligence officials are investigating the presence of Chinese telecom firms in the country. It marks growing concern in the United States that the Chinese regime is carrying out cyber espionage through major Chinese firms.

US lawmakers are looking into the expansion of Chinese telecom firms. The House Intelligence Committee last week announced it will investigate if two major companies, Huawei and ZTE Corporation, pose a security threat to the United States through telecommunications infrastructures.

Huawei is China’s largest provider of telecom equipment, and has aggressively expanded overseas in recent years. Its operations in the United States have faced opposition from those concerned about its possible ties to the Chinese regime’s military. Huawei’s founder was an engineer in the army, but the private company says he left 25 years ago, and has no links with the Chinese regime.

Former Chinese intelligence officer Li Fengzhi says this does not rule out Huawei and other Chinese firms from engaging in intelligence work in the United States.

[Li Fengzhi, Former Chinese Intelligence Officer]:
“They will register a company in the target country, like the US by a private individual, or a branch of a large private enterprise, or something with government backing. They can then place intelligence workers here who look for opportunities to obtain important or sometimes trivial intelligence, including military intelligence.”

Earlier this month, US intelligence officials accused the Chinese regime of being the biggest perpetrator of economic espionage. Representative Mike Rogers, who chairs the House Intelligence Committee, echoed those claims last week. His committee launched an investigation to find out whether Chinese telecom firms in the US give the Chinese regime “an opportunity for greater foreign espionage.”

The Chinese regime denies being involved in cyber espionage, and says the US is politicizing trade issues. Both Huawei and ZTE Corporation, China’s second-largest mobile-equipment maker, maintain they pose no security threat to the United State”

[Via: http://english.ntdtv.com]

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Christopher Ahlberg, CEO Of Recorded Future


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Backed by Google Ventures, IA Ventures, and In-Q-Tel, the venture arm of the CIA and other U.S. intelligence agencies. [Via: businessinsider.com]

“Mission: Record and analyze all that is known about the future, and make it available for analysis. Recorded Future is an early stage company headquartered in the Boston area. We have 20+ employees in various corners of the globe attacking a hard problem – organize the web in a radically new and useful way. The world’s 24×7 media flow is filled with temporal signals, including reports of what’s transpired or statements of what’s expected to come. Recorded Future’s linguistic and statistical algorithms extract time-related information and through temporal reasoning we structure the unstructured. We help users understand relationships between entities and events over time. In doing so, we’ve formed the world’s first temporal analytics engine. Our customers include some of the most advanced financial institutions and leading government agencies in the world. The Recorded Future team includes computer scientists, statisticians, linguists, technical business people with deep domain expertise in areas such as intelligence and quantitative finance. A high proportion of the team holds PhDs and other advanced degrees. Team members have received numerous accolades including the Fulbright scholarship, MIT’s TR100 award, and more. Our leadership has built multiple successful analytics businesses with aggregate annual revenues in the $100′s of millions. We have a great team, a solid track recorded of success, and a great culture.”
[Via: recordedfuture.com]

Big Data for the Future: Unlocking the Predictive Power of the Web

View more documents from Recorded Future

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About His Activities As An Economic Hit Man

“The concept of corporatocracy is that corporations, to a significant extent, have massive power over governments, including those governments nominally elected by the people. They exercise their power via corporate monopolies and mergers, and through their subsequent capacity to leverage broad economic interests, which allows them the luxury of being declared “too big to fail”; this is accomplished by legal mechanisms (i.e., lobbyists, campaign contributions to office holders and candidates, threats to leave the state or country for another with less oversight and/or more personally beneficial subsidies, etc.), which renders them immune to vague accusations and prosecution. It may also refer to an unrealized form of government or theoretical corporate governance in national or international affairs.”


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WHAT IS AN ECONOMIC HIT MAN?

“Economic hit men (EHMs) are highly-paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. They funnel money from the World Bank, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and other foreign “aid” organizations into the coffers of huge corporations and the pockets of a few wealthy families who control the planet’s natural resources. Their tools included fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extortion, sex, and murder. They play a game as old as empire, but one that has taken on new and terrifying dimensions during this time of globalization.” [Via: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_of_an_Economic_Hit_Man]

Interview – Confessions of an Economic Hit Man – Part I

Interview – John Perkins – Confessions of an Economic Hit Man – Part II

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