Sybase Advertises 'PATRIOTcompliance'

Posted by michael on Friday July 19, 2002 @10:38PM from the boogiemen-of-the-infopocalypse dept.

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.

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Be a PATRIOT by WCMI92 · 2002-07-20 01:33 · Score: 2, Flamebait

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.

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Corporatism != Free Market