A Good American tells the story of the best code-breaker the USA ever had and how he and a small team within NSA created a surveillance tool that could pick up any electronic signal on earth, filter it for targets and render results in real-time while keeping the privacy as demanded by the US constitution. The tool was perfect - except for one thing: it was way too cheap. Therefor NSA leadership, who had fallen into the hands of industry, dumped it - three weeks prior to 9/11. In a secret test-run of the program against the pre-9/11-NSA database in early 2002 the program immediately found the terrorists.
A Good American tells the story of the best code-breaker the USA ever had and how he and a small team within NSA created a surveillance tool that could pick up any electronic signal on earth filter it for targets and render results in real-time while keeping the privacy as demanded by the US constitution. The tool was perfect - except for one thing: it was way too cheap. There...
美国国家安全署NSA的一位数据分析师发明了一套全球电子信号接受和追踪系统TunThread，十分完美，唯一的不足是它太便宜了，只用了几百万美元就搞定了；因为它太便宜，NSA没法向国会多要钱，于是另起炉灶花了几十亿美元搞了一套叫做TrailBlazer的系统。9.11后，ThinThread的几位分析师和计算机专家被迫离职，新接手的团队出于好奇搜索了一下ThinThread的数据系统，发现了9.11...
