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>>>You know, I can see real utility in a simple site that lets you upload data garnered from hacking escapades online to be easily searchable and presentable to the general public.

Did you ever read Stephenson's Snow Crash? You just described what the CIA becomes in that novel: crowd-sourced intel uploaded to a central site.

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That had one incentive lacking in the proposal though: cash to the uploader in exchange for access. Also, apparently, some rudimentary gatekeeping on what was uploaded (though it seems some people were able to upload tons of useless information for a while before getting the boot).

I thought that idea came from Stross' Accelerando - probably both actually.

I'm actually reading Accelerando at the moment but somehow totally forgot about the crowd sourcing aspect of the new look CIA.

Investigating further Accelerando was published after Snow Crash by a fair margin.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerando_%28novel%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_crash

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