Fwd: "Inside the NSA’s Secret Tool for Mapping Your Social Network"

[Gianluca Miscione]

Possibly worth a look in a period when contagion concerns motivate more social networks monitoring...

Inside the NSA’s Secret Tool for Mapping Your Social Network

Edward Snowden revealed the agency’s phone-record tracking program. But thanks to “precomputed contact chaining,” that database was much more powerful than anyone knew.

https://www.wired.com/story/inside-the-nsas-secret-tool-for-mapping-your-social-network/

Gianluca Miscione
University College Dublin
http://www.ucd.ie/cito/members/gianlucamiscione

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