![]() ![]() The science of studying networks has been growing by leaps and bounds, allowing analysts to tease relationships from seemingly unrelated data points. ![]() Some of the other advances aren’t necessarily of the hardware or software variety. “Accumulo’s ability to handle data in a variety of formats - a characteristic called ‘schemaless’ in database jargon - means the NSA can store data from numerous sources all within the database and add new analytic capabilities in days or even hours,” Derrick Harris wrote for GigaOM. (If you would like to buy Accumulo for yourself, some of the developers that worked on the project with the NSA sell a commercial version through their company. Originally called CloudBase, Accumulo is built on top of a software framework called Apache Hadoop and is similar to Google’s BigTable storage system. One of the major components of PRISM is believed to be an open-source database called Apache Accumulo, which the NSA began working on in late 2007. The same innovations in software and hardware that aid your Google query or help advertisers track your habits online - like when you examine a book on Amazon and then see an ad for that book pop up later on Facebook - also allow the NSA to sort through reportedly tens of billions of pieces of information a month. Most technology experts can’t speak with too much certainty about a program they haven’t seen, like PRISM, but based on publicly available information, something like PRISM has been possible for years. “There’s nothing surprising technically” about programs like PRISM, data-mining expert and KDNuggets editor Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro said in a phone interview. Modern intelligence gathering, like the recently unveiled PRISM program, is the product of the “big data” era. ![]() ![]() The National Security Agency has been involved in intelligence-gathering schemes since its inception in 1949, but 21st century technology has advanced far beyond the wiretap and the codebook. ![]()
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