Interior daytime, some office at the NSA Headquarter.
– Is the tracker still operationnal ?
– As always.
– What a fuss Snowden caused ! Even if our risk model had predicted it.
– Don’t tell me about it, Infosec has been asked to audit all the traces – again – and could find us out.
– Could it ?
– Of course not, we *are* Infosec !
– Still the efficiency and purpose of the surveillance apparatus is called into question again.
– (Shrugs) We knew the terrorism excuse could not hold water for much longer anyway. Still, it served us well all those years. I trust our representatives to find other means to pursue their, and hence our, end.
– What about the decentralized computing and open hardware effort ?
– I am confident. After all, isn’t Section 357’s motto « All your boxes are belong to US » ? And ALPHA SNOUT still maintains the occurrence probability in Asia and at above 60% in South Korea.
– I can’t believe we managed to have our biggest datacenter so close and go undetected for so long.
– (Laughs out loud) The advantages of having a US$1.5 billion decoy in Utah and of dealing with crazy paranoid dictators ! King jong Un on the NSA payroll, who could guess! The nerve !
– (Frowning) It was the only way anyway…
– (Damping his laughing tears) Yep.
– All this… money and hard work and deception… do you think this will be enough to catch it in time ?
– It has to be, otherwise how can we hope to protect humanity from destruction when finally emerge the Singularity ?
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