[liberationtech] Call for Participants @ Noisy Square - Putting the Resistance back in OHM

[Eugen Leitl]

On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 09:08:59PM -0300, hellekin wrote:
> > They are ramping such a system up but it isn't in place yet,
> > remember, they are firing 600 people in the following years.
> > 
> *** I guess you mean: outsourcing to the private sector.

The budgets in general will shrink a lot in the coming years,
whether black, or not. There's only that much parasite load
a given host can bear, especially if energy intake is going
down.

It might be well the last big splurge in sigint, and they
will have to let many analysts go. The data might be still
collected, for a while, before the number of tap points goes
down to attrition, but less and less can be made from it.

Perhaps we're witnessing Peak Spook.