re: #123 funky chicken

Sorry, just a joke. The NSA facility. Much of West Virginia is filled with behemoth federal buildings courtesy of Senator Byrd.

You may have been joking, but

FBI ‘Going Dark’ with New Advanced Surveillance Program By Kim Zetter 05.11.09

The program is designed to help the agency address challenges with conducting surveillance over newish technologies, such as VoIP. The program is also doing research on automated link analysis to find connections between subjects of surveillance “and other investigative suspects.”

The budget report also discusses a Biometric Technology Center that is being developed jointly by the FBI, Defense Department and Justice Department in conjunction with the University of West Virginia for research and development of biometric technologies. The center is located at the Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Division complex in Clarksburg, West Virginia.

BTW everyone, VoIP isn’t meta-data, it’s conversations.