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+-   AT&T Invents Surveillance Programming Language-> on Tuesday October 30 2007, @12:49AM Anonymous Coward

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 30 2007, @12:49AM
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Anonymous Coward writes "From the company that brought you the C programming language comes Hancock, a C variant developed by AT&T researchers to mine gigabytes of the company's telephone and internet records for surveillance purposes. The language powers AT&T's nightly tally of who its customers routinely call and can be used to compute maps of where cell phone users roam and parse TCPDUMP logs. AT&T secured patents for the data-mining techniques. 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."
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