Some speculation about the nature of my own, unknown to me, ID number assigned to me by the NSA to which all information collected about me is related.
My name? We google our name to find how many of us there are in the USA with the same name. A two part name is an ambiguous identifier but it does narrow the field. Add a middle name and the field gets very small for a larger number. Add a couple of other key identifiers like SSN, credit card, telephone number and the probability of another individual also having all those same numbers might as well be zero but please be sure before you shoot the person.
The unique NSA master id number might be the product of some algorithm that takes 5 or 6 other key identifiers and hashes them to a single unique parent number to which all child identifiers are are associated. Some of those identifiers will of course be shared with other individuals. That is not however a problem in uniquely identifying a single primary target individual but a valuable identifier of individuals sharing the same identifier with the target. Like an address, etc.
If the master ID number is a hash of child numbers then unhashing the number immediately leads to children identifiers that compose the master ID. This may facilitate a high level search of related information connecting individuals by simply comparing an individual master ID numbers.
The master ID could be created in many different ways. It is all a mater of computer information science which is progressing at a rapid rate as we approach a total information society. Exactly how the information design geniuses do it might be interesting but academic. It is probable and logical that the master ID would have some embodied information in itself rather than be the next random or sequential number that is automatically assigned by a computer with no inherent information or knowledge in itself. That would be a waste of a number to only be a number and nothing else without being able to say some things important or most important about itself.
For example, any written word does not say anything about itself. It only has meaning when we know its definition. However, as a stand alone word, certain rules can be applied to determine how to pronounce it. Its position in context also says something about it. It relates to more things than its own definition. It has embedded knowledge. My passport number starts with the last 4 digits of my SSN.
Once identified by a unique NSA master ID number what is the knowledge to be derive form information: Past, present (real time) and future information that produces knowledge of past things (state) and actions (behavior), current (select time frame) things and actions and future probability of related things and actions (probable state and behavior). Object oriented stuff. NSA must employ of lot of smart people that know all about state and behavior.
Yesterday I read a long patent in which the NSA had interest describing the nature of master and slave computer network nodes and the situation that the node designated as master node is always changing or subject to change in the master/slave relation to other nodes. Somehow it ring a pattern bell in how the dominant factor in intelligence about a target person of interest is always changing to become the master to which all other nodes of information related to or regarding the target are associated and how the master node regarding the target may change. It is an interesting physical and logical computer science thing to think about. Also the physical and logical data model. Something to think about if I am given another lifetime.
Right now: I sure would like to know what my NSA ID number is and everything that it says about virtual me! My virtual identity that represents to the NSA the best possible model of my real identity state and behavior if and when that is necessary to know.
Of course, the NSA keeps all the information is has collected that is related to me in a real tight lock box that they will only look into with justifiable reason. Their reasons that justify looking at me which are unknown to me but satisfy the agency that they have authority, secret or otherwise ginned up to accomplish whatever they believe they are authorized to do.
For example: Why did two identical bags containing many unusual parts checked by myself and an associate with Austrian Airlines in Viennna (Wien) on the 25th of Sept. on a flight to Barcelona to be placed on a connecting Delta flight to JFK not arrive at my final destination that I will not name. Baggage tag numbers 707763 and 360895. Those are actual numbers. What flight might they have been on if misdirected that I was not on?
Good question? Am I a target of interest? If so can the NSA analyst find the bags for me? They contain two folding bicycles that I treasure.
I trust Alaska Airlines to find them more than I would the NSA.
Interesting "virtual me" identification ability comparison of the NSA to the Stasi can be found here.
I would like to know my ID number that is the NSA name of "Virtual Me". Where Virtual Me lives is interesting too. Probably Camp Williams near Bluffdale Utah.
Stephen Hawkings said the other day (get it?) that the human brain could be replicated on a computer to give us life after death. Is that what they are doing at Bluffdale? Seems like they would have enough capacity and information to do it. After death we could all still be sending out emails and making telephone calls for the NSA to intercept.
Used to be that death and taxes were the only sure thing.
Now it is just taxes.
The NSA will still be listening long after we are gone and freedom at that time will only be granted with the press of the delete button.
Is this place a department in the cellars of the NSA? Looks like an opportunity to remake an update of Frankenstein for the umpteenth time.
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