Liberty & Surveillance: Stellar Wind ‎(Liberty and Surveillance‎)

The NSA ”exaflop” (quintillion, or billion billion, calculations per second) computer called Stellar Wind, reported in development, is intended to “data mine” the Internet for terrorism. It incidentally also presents a grave danger, and a likely danger, to the Fourth Amendment, to “the right most valued by a free people, the right to go about ones private business without fear of surveillance." (Brandeis). Well-known laws of technology indicate there is no stopping the machine, but there is an answer for the toxic mountain of corrosive slag it will create, its information archive. A surprising answer is offered by the American Library Association: active destruction of the archive.

Liberty & Surveillance: Stellar Wind ‎(Liberty andSurveillance‎)