REAL LIFE NEWS: WELCOME TO THE INFORMATION DOMINANCE CENTRE
by Hazed
If they wanted to allay fears about their sinister spying activities, the National Security Agency probably shouldn’t have developed an operations centre that looked like the bridge of the Starship Enterprise.
And they definitely should not have called in the Information Dominance Centre!
But that’s what they did, according to a new leak. The director of the National Security Agency, Keith Alexander, sold the concept of surveillance to Congress with this plan.
The centre was put together professionally by a Hollywood set designer. It had a huge projection screen on one wall, computer stations, and doors that when “whoosh” just like they do on Star Trek.
Politicians were shown around the “set” and got to sit in the captain’s chair at the centre of the room, while Alexander showed them all the big data analaytics tools on that massive screen.
No doubt they were impressed – and no wonder they agreed to fund the NSA!
Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/09/16/alexander_star_trek_bridge/
