The Pentagon Wants Your Secrets

Teknogeek was one of the many readers to point out today's New York Times report on what one submitter dubbed "Son of Carnivore." "This should scare you: Vice Admiral John Poindexter wants to create a supercomputer capable of hunting through electronic databases all over the world, looking for suspected terrorists. According to the article, Poindexter outlines a need to '"break down the stovepipes' that separate commercial and government databases, allowing teams of intelligence analysts to hunt for hidden patterns of activity with powerful computers.'" Update: 11/10 16:15 GMT by T : Here's an updated link to the (no-registration) Arizona Star. Update: 11/24 17:42 GMT by T : Thanks to expiring links, here's another updated link to the NYTimes story.

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Re:Imagine

[Pig Hogger]

I really have to wonder if the rest of the world sees the US as we did Nazi-Germany in the late 30s/early 40s, a powerful expanding force that needs to be stopped.

Wonder no more, yes indeed, the rest of the world sees the US as a powerful expanding force that needs to be stopped. The first step to do this was taken more than a year ago when several aircraft were flown into highrises and military command posts.

Expect more attacks soon, against supertankers and civil common-carrier aircraft.