I find it hilarious that personal privacy is suddenly a critical issue almost 3 months after I told the @FBI how easily they could automate facial recognition, geolocation and data mining - especially in DC's Federal security footage.
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@FBI @ericgarland Without elaboration, guess what it means if you can sift a database of years if not *decades* of security video automatically, looking for people *not* protected as US citizens - such as known Russian or other intelligence operatives, etc - & see everyone they made contact with.
@FBI @ericgarland Every dead drop.
Every brush past.
In an expanding cloud of exposed identities, filed warrants, and data points connecting with the vast, *vast* oceans of evidence already in the hands of US counterintelligence.
@FBI @ericgarland Now imagine if it were incredibly easy to merge all of these files with any *other* video and/or audio available, most of which is geolocated already.
And that we have super resolution.
Which I've already told them can be radically enhanced. And how.
@FBI @ericgarland Imagine if we already have - publicly - the ability to filter out speech from background noise, or to lip read automatically.
Imagine if the audio can *also* be refined to an unnatural degree by a related method I've provided.
@FBI @ericgarland And imagine if - *hypothetically* - this conspiracy were overrun by such ineptitude that Parnas posting critical evidence with conspirators' names on to *Instagram* isn't remotely the least-intelligent thing they've done.
@FBI @ericgarland That would mean a host of reckless conspirators would be on video, conspiring, *somewhere* within range of an affiliated or accessible video, their voices filtered or lips read.
On video. In their own words.
On. Court. Admissible. Evidence.
@FBI @ericgarland Operatives.
Assets.
Agents of Influence.
Moles.
Useful Idiots.
And a new category... Useless Idiots.
Who are innumerable.
@FBI @ericgarland Geolocation, recognition from partial images or from older or younger photos is also trivial, as it happens.
Sure, it takes hundreds of hours to stand up a typical generative adversarial network (GAN).
@FBI @ericgarland But FBI-Cyber and the @NSAGov may have access to computers a *tad* faster than those of the typical university doing this research.
And then, as they say, we get to the *bad* part.
All of this easily overlays with those vast oceans of evidence.
@FBI @ericgarland @NSAGov In many cases, it undoubtedly merges almost seamlessly.
Geolocated phones. Bitcoin bribes and other payments.
Evidence of interaction, communication and collusion.
@FBI @ericgarland @NSAGov The map - what we know of it *publicly* - is so vast it would require a supercomputer to view in its entirety, much less to analyze it.
Though, conveniently, it's ideal for such assessment, and it can be broken into pieces for human consideration.
@FBI @ericgarland @NSAGov No, really.
It's hard to fit all the relevant evidence sources into a single tweet, or even several.
The key thing to remember is that.
It. All. Integrates. Together.
@FBI @ericgarland @NSAGov But if you're wondering about your right to privacy...
Best *not* to conspire with someone we're already allowed to monitor.
Known hostile foreign intelligence operatives.
Terrorists.
Assorted criminals under warrant.
P.S. There. Is. No. Escape.
@FBI @ericgarland @NSAGov I might add, faced with the absolute sanction of the US blocking their banks from being countersigned - thereby cutting them off from *all* banks & the global - economy, some nations may be handing over the intel people driving this instead.
#TrivialPrice
@FBI @ericgarland @NSAGov But in the meantime... Sure.
We need to be worried about any evidence reaching the government, not all of our data being handed over to transnational organized crime and hostile foreign intelligence for psychological warfare, blackmail, identity theft, etc.
Sure.
@FBI @ericgarland @NSAGov You weren't just living in the Machine from Person of Interest while all this crime & conspiracy was going on.
If you participated, you were *building* it.
And while the *Russian* authorities & government will not redeem themselves, *ours* are more than interested in justice.
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