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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.
I don't even get to see the black helicopters and they get to read my e-mail? Aww, not fair!
Banaaaana!
I demand the Government stop all future terrorist attacks, but God help them if they infringe on *my* rights. They should only infringe on the rights of those trying to harm us; and forget data mining, they need to make the distinction without looking at any of my *private* data.
Hey, I'm sure the dead will appreciate that their rights to privacy had remained intact.
You could probably get unlimited power by hooking Orwell's grave up to a turbine nowdays.
I mod down anyone who uses M$ in their posts. I like to live on the edge.
Does this meen Hughe Jackmans 1337 H4X0R1N in Swordfish was all a hoax? damn, an i honestly believed that he knew how to work a keyboard!
Look dumbshit. We all know they're going to use this for their holy, tax and spend war on pot, and not against rag-heads. If we could trust these Poindexters with surveilance technology, they wouldn't be such, well...Poindexters!
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...an NSA scientist ponders; "We need another one?"
They want to play six degrees of Kevin Bacon?!?!
Really, with all the money they have, you'd think they could get their own pr0n. Hell, they could probably hire the actresses to come over and give all the generals a personal lapdance and/or BJ.
You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!
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Private enterprises will surely object to the inconvenience...
Two words: tax breaks.
We still have checks and balances, only in a different form. You write the check and we'll tip the balance in your favor. I don't think that's what the framers of the constitution had in mind.
War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength. - George Orwell or George Bush?
...of individual liberties being trashed?
"It was a summer's tale: Just a boy, his Linux, and a head full of dreams..."
Don't you think it would be a lot easier, and more successful, to run large corporation's finances through an advanced version of turbotax to find corporate fraud?
SELECT * FROM internet WHERE pr0n > 0
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