General Observation: I assume you knew something about Thinthread from your work as a government [employee or] contractor; but, you probably did not get the truth about the TT Program. I have attached an article written about TT by Diane Roark. Plus, TT was not abandoned back then. The software is what they are using today to spy on the whole world. This is clear from the Ed Snowden material plus the NSA IG report from 2009. Also, they have not changed the name of some the TT related programs. They adopted these TT programs because they had nothing else that could handle massive data and data flows. They removed three parts of TT back in 2001. First, the filtering software that did smart selection of relevant data only; second, the encryption Of identifying attributes to mask individuals identities; and, finally, monitoring software that looked at every one on the network and what they were doing As they did it. I would also point out that not only did they adopt all the software to manage data but they also adopted our (SARC) design for Networks that connected multiple parties (1st, 2nd and 3rd) – see Rampart A on the WWW. Further, Kirk Wiebe and I are working with partners
In Amsterdam to implement a TT type program, but on a much more comprehensive scale. Bill
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