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September 15, 2013 12:58 pm PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/pbdIt0qlQFg/story01.htm
A look at the Information Dominance Center, a replica ST:TNG Enterprise bridge used to sell surveillance toCongress
Remember last week's post about NSA boss General Keith Alexander's stage-trick for selling surveillance to Congress? The General realized that if he made his "Information Dominance Center" look like the bridge of the Enterprise from Star Trek: The Next Generation, and let Congresscritters come over to "play Picard," that they'd be so excited that they'd greenlight his plan for spying on everything and everyone.Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/pbdIt0qlQFg/story01.htm
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