The Aquinas Hub

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The NSA Is Building the Country?s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)

Yottabytes and exaflops, septillions and undecillions?the race for computing speed and data storage goes on. In his 1941 story ?The Library of Babel,? Jorge Luis Borges imagined a collection of information where the entire world?s knowledge is stored but barely a single word is understood. In Bluffdale the NSA is constructing a library on a scale that even Borges might not have contemplated. And to hear the masters of the agency tell it, it?s only a matter of time until every word is illuminated.

It's a long but super interesting read about privacy, cyber-security and computing speed. This is only the last part, but do yourself a favor and read the whole thing.

(BTW, it's not really named the The Aquinas Hub. But if you get the reference, 100 credits to you!)

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Deus Ex... It's happening!

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So it's like a suped-up Echelon system? Or what?

Anyway, if we're being pedantic (I am) then it's not really like the Aquinas Hub. That was a protocol specifically designed to replace existing net protocols (and hand control over to the Illuminati) where as this is more of an effort to listen and record on existing tech.

I have read the Deus Ex wiki extensively.

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Yeah, I know but still..

Aquinas was publicly known as a philanthropic effort to make the internet a better place, but in reality was a brilliant tool that allowed Majestic-12 clandestine surveillance over the internet

Sounds pretty similar to me, but I get what you're saying. I've also read the Deus Ex Wiki extensively. The Deus Ex bible was a riveting read for something that wasn't even included in the game. Just thinking about it makes me want to play it again.