{"id":486,"date":"2002-06-18T22:42:40","date_gmt":"2002-06-19T05:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2002\/06\/18\/486.html"},"modified":"2002-06-18T22:42:40","modified_gmt":"2002-06-19T05:42:40","slug":"echelonhome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2002\/06\/18\/echelonhome\/","title":{"rendered":"ECHELON@home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/members.cox.net\/indepundit\/archive\/2002_06_16_archive.html#77855044\">The Indepundit<\/a> reports that the NSA, taking a page from the SETI@home project, is launching a program to use idle cycles on people's home computers to help process vast quantities of intercepted communications.  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When asked why Americans would volunteer to have a highly secretive intelligence agency analyze data on their computers, [NSA spokesman George] Sharpe chuckled. &#8220;Imagine what a hero you would be if your computer was the one that intercepted a call from bin Laden. SETI has logged over a million years of CPU time, and they have yet to find a single Little Green Man. If we get that much participation, we could have al Qaeda wrapped up in months!\"<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(Yes, this article is a joke.)<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indepundit reports that the NSA, taking a page from the SETI@home project, is launching a program to use idle&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}