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posted by cmn32480 on Sunday June 28 2015, @05:03AM   Printer-friendly
from the government-overreach-at-its-finest dept.

The National Security Agency, while primarily occupied by sweeping up billions of phone calls, emails, texts and social media messages each day, wants better visual information about the earth and its residents, too, Admiral Michael Rogers said Wednesday.

"Signals intelligence ... ain't enough, you guys," the NSA chief told a gathering of contractors in the geospatial intelligence business. "We gotta create a much broader picture."

We need "the ability to visualize," he explained, because "man is fundamentally a visual creature."

Rogers, who also heads the Pentagon's United States Cyber Command, spent much of his keynote speech at the GEOINT 2015 conference pitching the technology, intelligence and defense companies in the audience on the importance of working together. The conference's slogan — appropriate, given the government's ever-growing demands — is "open the aperture."

"It's all about partnerships," Rogers told the audience. "How can we harness the power of the commercial sector?"

In how many other ways could the Director of the NSA gain a new perspective on the world?


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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 29 2015, @02:39AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 29 2015, @02:39AM (#202593)

    Every single one of you is the god damn cause of it.

    How can racism and bigotry continually be upmodded here? Seriously, if this was said about any other large heterogeneous group it would be blasted as hate speech but since it is against the US it is applauded without a first rational thought let alone a second.

    To what bigotry and racism are you referring? And racism and bigotry are aimed at homogenous groups (blacks, jews, Muslims, etc) by definition. Are you really saying that Americans are to blame for the problems in America is the same as somebody saying that all niggers should be shipped back to Africa, or that all Muslims should be executed, or that all women belong in the kitchen?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 29 2015, @07:10AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 29 2015, @07:10AM (#202677)

    No I am saying all Americans are at fault for something is like saying all Jews are greedy-note that they are not homogenous, nor are Africans, nor are Muslims. Defend it all you want but you are a bigot, hell just continuing to defend this filth is what defines you as a bigot.