282 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS on-camera star of a twenty-hour-long reality show, edited first into a video and then a full-length documentary, transformed him in the public’s mind into a hero. It would be a mistake to assume that the central role he gave himself was simply...
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…ouse report concluded that he compromised “secrets that protect American troops overseas and secrets that provide vital defenses against terrorists and nation-states.” These were, the report said, “merely the tip of the iceberg.” The Pentagon’s investigation during 2013 and 2014...
170 CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE The Russians Are Coming "The breakup of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical tragedy of the 20th century."—Vladimir Putin In the first invasion of a European country since the end of the Cold War, Russian military forces moved into the Crimea...
168 Despite all the potential flaws in it, the outsourcing system, ii seemed to work until 2013. It even featured a revolving door through which Booz Allen, for example, hired retiring executives from the intelligence services, such as ex-NSA director Michael McConnell, R. James...
CHAPTER 8 Raider of the Inner Sanctum They think there’s a smoking gun in there that would be the death of them all politically. —EDWARD SNOWDEN, Moscow, 2014 HE NIGHTMARE OF THE NSA is a penetration. As the CIA, the FBI, and the NSA found out in the 1990s, no intelligence se...
Intelligence Ithough my computer appears to havea mischievous sense of humor — deleting files and crashing just before important presentations — it does not appear to enjoy listening to Bach, nor does it ever ask me to put it near the window to admire the view. I think this m...
332 A Glossary e Forgetting: The process of removing Atoms from the in-RAM portion of Atomspace, when RAM gets short and they are judged not as valuable to retain in RAM as other Atoms. This is commonly done using the LTT values of the Atoms (removing lowest LTI-Atoms, or more c...
194 CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE Vanishing Act “They talk about Russia like it’s the worst place on earth. Russia’s great.”—Snowden Moscow, 2015 My night flight from New York to Moscow took less than eight hours. It landed at 7:40 AM on October 29, 2015 at terminal D a Sheremetyevo Inte...
Prologue | 11 proved ineffective in hiding him from U.S. intelligence and presum- ably other intelligence services seeking the treasure trove of docu- ments he had taken from the NSA. As for his next destination, I could find no evidence that Snowden had made any arrangements d...
GRADIENT DESCENT Chris Anderson Chris Anderson is an entrepreneur; former editor-in-chief of Wired; co-founder and CEO of 3DR; and author of The Long Tail, Free, and Makers. Life The mosquito first detects my scent from thirty feet away. It triggers its pursuit function, which...
capabilities emerge from regular physical processses, which we can trace down to the level of electrons, photons, quarks, and gluons. Evidently, brute matter can get pretty smart. Let me summarize the argument. From two strongly supported hypotheses, we’ve drawn a straightforwar...
49 23” but in actuality it had acted on June 22, 2013, which was the day before the plane (or Snowden) departed from Hong Kong. The Hong Kong authorities had been advised as early as June 19, 2013 that there were criminal charges against Snowden and only a typographical error in...
(3) Investments in AI should be accompanied by funding for research on ensuring its beneficial use. ... How can we make future AI systems highly robust, so that they do what we want without malfunctioning or getting hacked.'® The first two involve not getting stuck in suboptimal...
15 First, and not surprisingly, ElBaradei is well aware of the atomic energy agency’s handicaps. For one, its inspections are generally restricted to Non-Proliferation Treaty members and only to those sites declared by those members. Extending this limited mandate to other sites...
226 END NOTES Prologue On The Trail of Snowden “No Such Agency’—The best description of the birth of the NSA can be found in James Bamford, The Puzzle Palace, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1982, pp. 1-4 “the NSA learned ...”—Author Interview with General Keith Alexander...