Timeline for What stops government from turning off the feeds?
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| Nov 26, 2016 at 20:15 | comment | added | Nathaniel Brown | As good as I can remember, the government was happy with the results of Samaritan. Then by the time control, realized what they've done by giving them the feeds, Samaritan was already too "strong". Anybody that actually wanted to cut the feeds either didn't have the ranking power to do it or was eventually taken care of. | |
| Nov 23, 2016 at 5:44 | answer | added | Mazura | timeline score: 5 | |
| Oct 24, 2016 at 18:38 | comment | added | Markus Klein | Just to answer a part of your question: In S05E01 it is mentioned that Samarithan has produced a kind of malware which is basicly in every hardware. Hence, even if the government cut the feeds, Samarithan would get enough data to work fine. (I think, in some episode in Season 4 it is mentioned that Samarthan is buying a router company to access their hardware). | |
| Jul 3, 2016 at 11:12 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackMovies/status/749561392726962176 | ||
| Jul 1, 2016 at 23:18 | comment | added | cde | Maybe initial permission was needed, before the AI went sideways | |
| Jul 1, 2016 at 22:05 | comment | added | matt_black | @cde If the AIs could access surveillance data without authorisation then why did Decima go to so much trouble to get government approval for Samaritan to get access to them? | |
| Jul 1, 2016 at 19:36 | comment | added | cde | But isn't that the answer? | |
| Jul 1, 2016 at 19:35 | comment | added | cde | Assuming it can't access them another way or without authorization. | |
| Jul 1, 2016 at 17:47 | comment | added | matt_black | @NapoleonWilson Oddly, though, at one point we see Control turn off the use of the data from the machine but, apparently, not cut the feeds that enable it to work. | |
| Jul 1, 2016 at 17:45 | comment | added | matt_black | @cde But we clearly see that, in testing, the government have to specifically authorise feeds to Samaritan (and can restrict the test to New York). So, presumably, they could specifically de-authorise those feeds without affecting any other systems. | |
| Jul 1, 2016 at 17:43 | comment | added | cde | Because cutting the feeds would cut the FBI nsa and general law enforcement off from the feeds too? Not like there is one cable labeled "feed" instead of multiple Internet accessible connections. | |
| Jul 1, 2016 at 17:43 | comment | added | Napoleon Wilson | I had the impression Control was pretty much out of the loop and the rest of the government simply didn't know that their precious anti-terror toy was acting against them behind their backs. | |
| Jul 1, 2016 at 17:40 | history | asked | matt_black | CC BY-SA 3.0 |