SAFARICOM, HEAP OF IDEAS

It’s really suprising how close  Safaricom we’re portraying their national security  ideas basing on the Persons of Interest show .

Persons of Interest was also acted based on a part of a project that DARPA undertook a number of years ago that was coined Total Information Awareness, and a couple other projects: The U.S. Special Operations Command,Defense Intelligence Agency’s ,Able Danger, and the NSA’s ThinThread and Trailblazer.

The US government, for years now, has had a firehose of information—whether it’s
wiretapped phone calls, security cameras, Internet traffic monitoring—that pours into NSA headquarters at Fort Meade.And what the government has been actively looking for is a piece of a computer software—they call it a machine, because it sounds more dynamic to sift through that information. That’s what they’ve spent the last 10 years doing, building software.

So the only science-fiction part of the show is imagining that they actually built one that worked.It goes through everything, looking for malicious intent, listening for people scheming, plotting, and putting things together,pulling together all this aggregate information—whether it’s purchase records from credit card receipts, phone calls, emails, suspicious activity on surveillance cameras—to get a bigger picture of what’s happening out there.

All of that is going toward preventing these terrorist attacks or threats to national security, but they’re probably seeing all kinds of other stuff as well.

We have a couple of advisers who
use code names.Perhaps Safaricom has  been talking to some pretty interesting people, whether it’s in technology or in special operations—a number of people who have a pretty good idea of the government’s capabilities at this point.

If all goes well without any agonistic amongst our leaders, -as encountered in the Laptop plan, we’re reaching the point where all these information technologies are beginning to bear fruit, not just for the government but for private enterprises .

Ever wondered if the security body of our government had that ability to learn an awful lot about terrorist, gangs and other contrary channels really quick? and the other question is, what are they going to do with that information?

By Ken Ronoh.