No word from the NSA on why they didn't use that iconic film name for its real-world Skynet.
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Because an attacker could tweak malicious code to avoid detection, a counterstrike would be more effective in neutralizing future attacks. Snowden also suggested, however, that MonsterMind could one day be designed to return fire-automatically, without human intervention-against an attacker. Armed with this knowledge, the NSA could instantly and autonomously identify, and block, a foreign threat. Under this program algorithms would scour massive repositories of metadata and analyze it to differentiate normal network traffic from anomalous or malicious traffic. Keep in mind, age has nothing to do with quality, classics shot on 35mm such as Independence Day, Lawrence of Arabia and Ghostbusters can have the original negative film scanned.
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MonsterMind, like the film version of Skynet, is a defense surveillance system that would instantly and autonomously neutralize foreign cyberattacks against the US, and could be used to launch retaliatory strikes as well. Complete list of Ultra-HD Blu-ray films and TV series, and whether they are real 4K (native 2160p) or fake 4k (mastered in 2K or 1080p then upscaled). This one is called MonsterMind, as revealed by Edward Snowden last year in an interview with WIRED and James Bamford. We should note that the NSA has a second program that more closely resembles the Terminator's Skynet. A Syrian national, Zaidan has scored a number of exclusive interviews with senior Al Qaeda leaders, including Osama bin Laden himself. A journalist for Al Jazeera reportedly became one of its targets after he was placed on a terrorist watch list.Īhmad Muaffaq Zaidan, bureau chief for Al Jazeera's Islamabad office, got tracked by Skynet after he was identified by US intelligence as a possible Al Qaeda member and assigned a watch list number. But unlike the autonomous, self-aware computerized defense system in Terminator that goes rogue and launches a nuclear attack that destroys most of humanity, this one is a surveillance program that uses phone metadata to track the location and call activities of suspected terrorists. And now it's confirmed-at least in name.Īs The Intercept reports today, the NSA does have a program called Skynet. We've suspected it all along-that Skynet, the massive program that brings about world destruction in the Terminator movies, was just a fictionalization of a real program in the hands of the US government.