erowe1
11-17-2013, 10:00 PM
I'm just posting this as an idea. I don't have the skills even to begin to implement it. But some people reading this do.
I think there are a lot of basic ways of accumulating huge amounts of data about the NSA little-by-little in small legally obtainable bits at a time.
There would need to be a website, maybe with a wiki format, that people could make anonymous contributions to.
People could contribute information about people they know who are NSA employees. Who they are, where they live, what their work schedule is. What facility they work at, what car they drive and its license plate number, provide pictures of them, etc. NSA employees themselves could contribute things. Obviously the NSA itself would be able to provide disinformation. But that would all just be part of the puzzle.
People, or even unmanned cameras, watching the roads going to NSA facilities could provide more information about what cars drive in and out when, and possibly even identify who's in them. Freely available satellite photography might even help connect this data to patterns of parking in the NSA parking lots.
A lot of this information about personnel could be used to help encourage NSA employees to be whistle blowers.
But as more and more data accumulates, I think it could be used to deduce more things, like which people work together, which units and subunits of the NSA they work for, what kind of work goes on when, and in which locations.
People smarter than I could take extrapolate this out in bigger and better ways than I can think of. But the smartest people of all won't be able to predict what could come of this if thousands of anonymous people got involved, each contributing a little bit of their own ideas and knowledge.
If this is a good idea, then maybe the first step is just spreading the idea around to people who might take an interest in it.
I think there are a lot of basic ways of accumulating huge amounts of data about the NSA little-by-little in small legally obtainable bits at a time.
There would need to be a website, maybe with a wiki format, that people could make anonymous contributions to.
People could contribute information about people they know who are NSA employees. Who they are, where they live, what their work schedule is. What facility they work at, what car they drive and its license plate number, provide pictures of them, etc. NSA employees themselves could contribute things. Obviously the NSA itself would be able to provide disinformation. But that would all just be part of the puzzle.
People, or even unmanned cameras, watching the roads going to NSA facilities could provide more information about what cars drive in and out when, and possibly even identify who's in them. Freely available satellite photography might even help connect this data to patterns of parking in the NSA parking lots.
A lot of this information about personnel could be used to help encourage NSA employees to be whistle blowers.
But as more and more data accumulates, I think it could be used to deduce more things, like which people work together, which units and subunits of the NSA they work for, what kind of work goes on when, and in which locations.
People smarter than I could take extrapolate this out in bigger and better ways than I can think of. But the smartest people of all won't be able to predict what could come of this if thousands of anonymous people got involved, each contributing a little bit of their own ideas and knowledge.
If this is a good idea, then maybe the first step is just spreading the idea around to people who might take an interest in it.