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On 27/06/13 10:21, Martijn Grooten wrote: > I just remembered this: > > On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 8:09 PM, bad apple wrote: >> (I wish they'd at least come clean and GHCQ would just tell us whatever >> cool name they've got for it, like "funcrusher plus" or something, it >> would make referring to it a lot easier) > Isn't it called Tempora? > > Martijn. > Ah yes, you're right of course... what a crappy name. Still, I suppose it's better than "socmint": http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-06/26/socmint Was rather disappointed to see that my old workplace (although not the same part - I was in the purely medical campus, in an actual hospital) is offering courses on OSINT and SOCMINT, so that you too can become a half-assed "intelligence agent". You have to wonder not just about judicial oversight but the actual competence of your average spook these days, I remember what even the medical post-grad students were like at Kings and they were the good ones. Scanning through their course PDF there are gems like a 5 day introduction to statistics in SPSS: I mean, really? Some little gobshite with 5 days of SPSS training let loose to number crunch datasets and put people on watchlists afterwards? What a fantastic idea! What could possibly go wrong... http://www.kcl.ac.uk/sspp/kpi/icsa/Training.aspx I must say that the 21st century is so far falling somewhat short of my expectations. Disappointing. Regards -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq