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Pentagon Alarmed by Taylor Swift Tweets (gizmodo.com)

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Given the amount of internet fuckery that happened in the 2016 election, I’m not surprised that the Pentagon is monitoring everything going on in the Internet. I’m not sure what they can do about it in most cases, but I guess it helps to keep tabs.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

During the Civil War, Lincoln had every telegraph line in the country routed though the White House. Wild Wild West the movie didn't do the ops history justice, but was close, and it was fiction.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

SMH my head, if not even Wild Wild West is historically accurate, then who can we even trust anymore?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I truly LOL'd at that hah! It was actually a deep ref to the beginning the movie in DC where they did have telegraph stations all over the place in the white house. But the movie not explaining that they also were listening because it was completely irrelevant to the plot hahaha.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

We've known that the NSA stores everything they can get their hands on for more than a decade. It's one of those things we just pretend isn't still happening.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I really should stop worrying about data backup. Why pay for it?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Just a simple FOIA request, and 3 month lead time to get data back printed on stacks of paper

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Backing up data is just as important as restoring it. Good luck getting the NSAs copy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

A mere jape, it was!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

FOIAing a backup of your lost website would be epic.

We also might be able to fill in some gaps in the internet archive that way someday.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

We also might be able to fill in some gaps in the internet archive that way someday.

I don't think we will have the internet archive long enough to find out

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

i back my data up by beaming it into space