This new spy center is supposed to allow LEO to get every bit of personal information on us. Everything is being connected through this new network, and we already have background checks so why another tax? Is it just to punish gun owners? Taxing for punishment because you don't like something someone else does is a bad thing. They get carried away. Tax the smokers to death, now places are starting to tax soda's and such to punish fat people. Where will the punishment taxes end? That's saying you're free to do it but because some of us don't like it we'll single you out to pay extra for it so that you can't afford it. What's next? Maybe something you enjoy?
The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)
But “this is more than just a data center,” says one senior intelligence official who until recently was involved with the program. The mammoth Bluffdale center will have another important and far more secret role that until now has gone unrevealed. It is also critical, he says, for breaking codes. And code-breaking is crucial, because much of the data that the center will handle—financial information, stock transactions, business deals, foreign military and diplomatic secrets, legal documents, confidential personal communications—will be heavily encrypted. According to another top official also involved with the program, the NSA made an enormous breakthrough several years ago in its ability to cryptanalyze, or break, unfathomably complex encryption systems employed by not only governments around the world but also many average computer users in the US. The upshot, according to this official: “Everybody’s a target; everybody with communication is a target.”
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/
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