“A Good American”

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Date/Time
Date(s) - 03/12/2017
6:15 pm

Location
ACME Screening Room

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A GOOD AMERICAN                                   DOCU/BIO

 

Sunday, March 12 

6:10 pm

Friday, March 24

7 pm

A Good American tells the story of the best code-breaker the USA ever had and how he and a small team within NSA created a surveillance tool that could pick up any electronic signal on earth, filter it for targets and render results in real-time, while keeping the privacy as demanded by the US constitution. The tool was perfect – except for one thing: it was way too cheap. Therefore NSA leadership, who had fallen into the hands of industry, dumped it – three weeks prior to 9/11. In a secret test-run of the program against the pre-9/11-NSA database in early 2002 the program immediately found the terrorists. This is the story of former Technical director of NSA, Bill Binney, and a program called ThinThread.

Rated NR, 1 hour 40 minutes

Tickets:   $6 Member/ $8 Non-Member

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About the author

Charlie Sahner

“Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy." - Einstein

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