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You go to a theater, you're in a darkened room, and you watch someone that you don't really know how many children they have or what their father's nickname might be; you don't have references and databases and rumors and half-truths - you're just transported by their storytelling.

~Adrien Brody

Topics: Children Databases Father Go How Just Know Many Might Nickname Really References Room Rumors Someone Storytelling Theater Watch You

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In baseball, you can do something poorly and still get credit. A pitcher could throw a bad ball, the batter hit a screaming line drive, and an outfielder make a fantastic diving catch. Yet, when you look at historical databases, 80% of the time when a ball is struck with that trajectory and velocity, it is a hit.

~Billy Beane

Topics: Bad Ball Baseball Catch Could Credit Databases Diving Drive Fantastic Get Historical Hit Line Look Make Pitcher Poorly Screaming Something Still Struck Throw Time Trajectory Velocity You

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Vast databases of names and personal information, sold to thieves by large publicly traded companies, have put almost anyone within reach of fraudulent telemarketers.

~Charles Duhigg

Topics: Almost Anyone Companies Databases Fraudulent Information Large Names Personal Personal Information Publicly Put Reach Sold Thieves Traded Vast Within

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In the years preceding my imprisonment, I worked as a software programmer, designing and developing web interfaces, secure databases, and communication software; later, I was employed as an intelligence analyst for the U.S. Army. Throughout each of these jobs, we used different kinds of encryption to keep prying eyes out of information we handled.

~Chelsea Manning

Topics: Analyst Army Communication Databases Designing Developing Different Different Kinds Each Employed Encryption Eyes Handled Imprisonment Information Intelligence Jobs Keep Kinds Later Out Programmer Secure Software Throughout Used Web Worked Years

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If an NSA, FBI, CIA, DIA, etc analyst has access to query raw SIGINT databases, they can enter and get results for anything they want. Phone number, email, user id, cell phone handset id (IMEI), and so on - it's all the same.

~Edward Snowden

Topics: Access Analyst Anything Cell Cell Phone Cia Databases Email Enter Etc Get Id Number Phone Phone Number Raw Results Same User Want Fbi Nsa

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The reason why there is more pessimism about technology in Europe has to do with history, the use of databases to keep track of people in the camps, ecological disasters.

~Evgeny Morozov

Topics: About Camps Databases Disasters Ecological Europe History Keep More People Pessimism Reason Technology Track Use Why

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Computer scientists have built a set of massive DNS databases, which provide fragmentary histories of communications flows, in part to create an archive of malware: a kind of catalog of the tricks bad actors have tried to pull, which often involve masquerading as legitimate actors.

~Franklin Foer

Topics: Actor Bad Built Catalog Communications Computer Create Databases Flows Histories Involve Kind Legitimate Massive Often Part Provide Pull Scientists Set Tricks Tried Which

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