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The NSA has played an increasingly central role in drone killings over the past five years, according to a former drone operator for the Joint Special Operations Commandrsquo JSOC High Value Targeting task force who has also worked with the NSA. On the condition of anonymity, the whistleblower agreed to talk about the top-secret programs to The Interceptrsquo reporters Jeremy Scahill and Glenn Greenwald. His account was backed up by former U.S. Air Force drone sensor operator Brandon Bryant as well as documents leaked by Edward Snowden.The first thing that snagged my attention was the phrase death by unreliable metadata. The JSOC drone operator was talking about the NSArsquo surveillance tactic of geolocati owala water bottle ng a SIM card so the military or CIA can conduct night raids and order drone strikes. The geolocation cells at the NSA that run the tracking program ndash; known as Geo Cell ndash ometimes facilitate strikes without knowing whether the individual in possession of a tracked cell phone or SIM card is in fact the inten stanley termo ded t stanley italia arget of the strike.The NSA often locates drone targets by analyzing the activity of a SIM card, rather than the actual content of the calls. Based on his experience, he has come to believe that the drone program amounts to little more than death by unreliable metadata.He added: People get hung up that therersquo a targeted list of people. Itrsquo really like wersquo;re targeting a cell ph Kvkb iOS 9 s split-screen modes signal bigger iPad in the works
New Roadrunner is expected to break the petaflop barrier when tested later this month Taking up 6,000 square feet and weighing in at 500,000 pounds, the latest version of the IBM Roadrunner supercomputer is nearly complete. Engineers and technicians are in the process of finishing its assembly and expect to begin running tests within a few weeks to gauge its performance, according to Don Gric stanley cup e, chief engineer on the Roadrunner project. Grice said he is highly confident that the new system will break the petaflop barrier, which is akin to the four-minute mile of supercomputing.A petaflop is 1,000 trillion calculations per second. Right now, the worldrsquo fastest supercomputer is the BlueGene/L, which runs at 478 teraflops, or a trillion calculations per second. The new Roadrunner will gain its huge power boost by using both AMDrsquo Opteron chips and the Cell chips originally designed by IBM, Sony and Toshiba for video games. We will break the petascale, Grice told Computerworld. Actually, IBM is contractually ob polene handbag ligated to hit a petaflop under its agreement with Los Alamos National Laboratory, which is buying the machine.Once IBM finishes testing Roadrunner, it will be disassembled, loaded onto 21 tractor-trailer trucks and driven to the lab in New Mexico, where it will be put back together again.Here are pictures of Roadrunner as it neared completion in IBMrsquo Poughkeepsie, N.Y., facility. Related MediaVideo: IBM promises to break petaflop barri stanley polska er w |
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