In a wide-ranging conversation about threat monitoring and analysis, the interview also touches on monitoring activists. “Last year we had an executive travel into a major city when we received some intelligence through Samdesk about a planned protest,” Ellison said. The originally scheduled protest was moved up due to permitting issues. “Samdesk gave us about 60 minutes of advanced notice that the protest organizers had moved the timeline,” Ellison explained. “That extra hour was critical. Without it our executives would have departed their meetings, they would have ran right into the heart of the disruption.”
Minority Report, in the sense that it’s specifically designed to get minorities reported to the Stasi, SHM my head
ICE is not stasi, ICE is SA. Know the difference.
Part of that role, compensated at between $180,000 and $230,000, will be to “identify, assess, track, and investigate global threats including geopolitical instability, terrorism, crime, activism, nation-state targeting of the AI sector, and emerging security trends, including deep-dive research and OSINT collection on specific threats, actors, and events”
Corporations having intelligence agencies and operating as though they are nation-like entities is way too cyberpunk for me
“All right, so you’ve figured it out, fine. Now–let’s get back to building a data center in your neighborhood…”
