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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WWJD? by Breakfast+Pants · 2002-07-19 22:39 · Score: 0, Funny

This world is getting scary.. with things like this the only way to really find a solution is to ask "What would jesus do?"

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WHO ATE MY BREAKFAST PANTS?
"Non-compliance is not an option" by Qender · 2002-07-19 22:48 · Score: 2, Funny

We are the Borg, your species will be assimilated. Non-compliance is not an option.

We will add your biological and technological
distinctiveness to our own, however your technological distinctiveness will be filtered against our database and monitored.
Re:Free World (tm) by Anonymous Coward · 2002-07-20 04:35 · Score: 1, Funny

Should be the "FREE!!!" in all caps, with multiple exclamation marks, such as seen on AOL CDs and in Infomercials, that tells you when you're about to be ripped off.