AT&T Invents Surveillance Programming Language 119
An anonymous reader writes "AT&T has long been associated with advances in the programming arts as well as communications. They've recently brought those disciplines together to create a powerful datamining language called Hancock. Hancock is a C variant developed to mine gigabytes of the company's telephone and internet records for surveillance purposes. 'The manual for the language includes a Hello World variant that shows you how to write a program that will parse logs of IP addresses and record them into permanent hashes. The program for parsing millions of records as they flow into permanent data farms sounds oddly close to the data mining the NSA performed after 9/11 to find targets for its warrantless spying on American citizens calls and emails."
Hancock.. worst name ever. (Score:5, Funny)
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We are already working on:
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Hello world (Score:5, Funny)
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Finally, the Mozilla Foundation has announced a datamining extension for it's popular Web browser called Firecock.
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