Thomas Drake
speaker
874 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 11 Sep
Thomas Drake’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But now you've got internet and there's just this extraordinary amount of data being broadcast all over the place.
So the problem was the bigger the haystack, the harder it is to find the needle, but here's the kicker.
This is really, this is really the punchline in all of this is what if you're regarding every straw in the haystack as a potential needle?
How can you tell the difference?
That's right.
And you're mixing it all up.
You're not even, this was, again, the very best, you know, necessity is the mother of invention.
It's sort of the heart and core of sort of America.
You know, we have a problem, let's solve it.
We have a problem, solve it.
Why would we want to not solve it?
That problem was actually solved at NSA.
in the late 90s, early aughts, comprehensively.
I mean, I was part of the program called Thin Thread, but it was shut down prior to 9-11.
It was ready to go well prior to 9-11, but they shut it down because why?
They wanted to spend tons and tons of money on another program just to spend a whole lot of money.
Now you're getting into the military-industrial complex.
ThinThread was this breakthrough program, one of several, by the way, it wasn't the only one, that could parse through vast amounts of data without violating the FISA, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, that was Fourth Amendment compliant.
It would actually encrypt any message
of any type, it didn't matter what it was, right?
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