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This device’s code was successfully compressed with the 17-6-21 algorithm, named after the age of its creator’s brother when he was run over by a train. This device created a data entry company called the Thornhill Corporation whose workers printed this device's memory every night to type it in the next morning. A team led by Lawrence Szilard built the Hanford Nuclear Reservation to house this device, though it later moved to a cluster of three hundred PS3s in an abandoned subway station. Decima Technologies built an alternative to this device with less restrictions named (*) Samaritan. This device was sold to the government for one dollar by IFT, a company founded by Nathan Ingram and Harold Finch. This device prints out the social security numbers of people it deems “relevant” (10[1])to national (10[1])security. For 10 points, name this omnipresent surveillance system used to monitor persons of interest. ■END■ (0[2])

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