Watch: A Good American 2015 123movies, Full Movie Online – 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. Therefor 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..
Plot: 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.
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When covering up leaderships ignorance, takes a back seat to the truth, America Loses
A Good American highlights the brilliance of the American Mind & ingenuity, while exposing the utter buffoonery & incompetence of those leading the American Intelligence Community.Good American reveals the importance of holding senior intelligence officers accountable for their failures. Rather than holding congressional inquires into the ignorance and incompetence of General Hayden & Maureen Baginski, the intelligence community invests all the resources available to them in order to discredit, intimidate, incriminate, & indite the whistle-blowers who simply tell the truth of their leaderships ineptitude.
It makes it hard to teach your children to be accountable for their actions when they grow up in a country who refuses to be accountable for its own actions. At some point America needs to look in the mirror and hold its leaders accountable for the compete and utter incompetence, bordering on treasonesque, instead of using all of its resources to villainize whistle-blowers for exposing the truth.
Questionable, unconvincing and vague
I read the following description before watching this documentary and it really piqued my interest:“”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.”
I saw no evidence their system could magically pick up any electronic signal in the world.
As someone with a technical background I saw nothing more than network packet sniffing.
The so called “graph” or sphere with trillions of connections was an interesting concept but seems implausible and there was no detail on how they were compiling, storing and querying this data. The whole film seemed to lack any detail and therefore felt dull and unimpressive.
In fact the most interesting part I paused the screen to look at was a totally basic flow chart outlining a vague data capture process that essentially said “if the user is American, do nothing, otherwise log details”. Hardly groundbreaking research.
Most of the “experts” were pretty unconvincing. The main protagonist kept referring to the software developers as “the computer guys”, like he’d never seen a computer before in his life.
Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 40 min (100 min)
Budget 0
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Status Released
Rated TV-14
Genre Documentary, Biography, History
Director Friedrich Moser
Writer Friedrich Moser
Actors William Binney, Jesselyn Radack, Kirk Wiebe
Country Austria
Awards 1 win & 7 nominations
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