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Sybase Advertises 'PATRIOTcompliance'
xmtrx writes "While everyone is rabidly pouncing, pounding and going pundit on Palladium, little-to-no attention is being paid to enterprise-class spyware such as Sybase's PATRIOTcompliance Solution. Their ad includes such gems as "Non-compliance is not an option" and "...helps you satisfy the many integration requirements of the USA PATRIOT Act by... filtering your customers, employees and suppliers against known suspects, and then... continuously monitoring their future activities." No punchline." The laws passed which affect financial institutions are mostly opaque to Joe Citizen. Sybase's press release sheds a little bit of light on what is going on behind the scenes.
The functionality advertised should already of been part of Sybase, which leads me to wonder if it's actually any good in terms of security.
No doubt, Ballmer will make Windows Patriot compliant, and score political brownie points in doing so.
This is another factor to taking away our democracy, people, do you see it yet?
The government is good, it is god
Report your family's crimes.
The State is all powerful
Report your friend's crimes.
Resistance is Futile
Report your neighbor's crimes.
Privacy is UNAMERICAN
Pay no attention to the face scanning spy cameras in your neighborhood.
Open source is TERRORISM
Your crimes won't need to be reported. The SWAT team is already on the way.
Corporatism != Free Market
So which branch of the armed forces are you a member of? How are you putting your life at risk for your country?
Or, as I suspect, do you find it easier to claim patriotic bravery than to practice it?
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