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William M. Arkin
Personal blog · williamaarkin.wordpress.compoliticssecurity
William M. Arkin's personal blog at williamaarkin.wordpress.com covers politics and security. Since 2013, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog in the XKeyscore thread, where the NSA program collects internet activity. The linked posts concern the NSA's XKeyscore tools and related job postings, not the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Secret No More
What Hacker News says?
Interesting addition. I wondered what some of these abbreviations in the URL stood for. Upon searching, I found this: http://www.techcareers.com/job.asp?id=64332188&aff=C014D02C-... Job posting, requiring top-secret clearance, looking for people that have experience using certain tools including "GAMUT/UTT" - notice the URL from the NSA doc has "gamut" and "UTT". So i further looked into GAMUT/UTT and found this: ht…
Comment linking /2012/03/13/nsa-code-names-revealed/
on “XKeyscore: NSA program collects 'nearly everything a user does on the internet'”Submitted Why You Can’t Keep Secrets (1996) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Unmanned drones, data, and the illusion of perfect warfare by William Arkin as a story · 2 points
HN discussion