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The Pentagon Wants Your Secrets

Posted by timothy on from the and-they-want-them-now dept.

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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  1. wait... by Exiler · · Score: 3, Funny

    I don't even get to see the black helicopters and they get to read my e-mail? Aww, not fair!

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  2. You know... by Teknogeek · · Score: 5, Funny

    You could probably get unlimited power by hooking Orwell's grave up to a turbine nowdays.

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  3. aww no.. by mj_sf · · Score: 2, Funny

    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!

  4. Somewhere in Maryland.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...an NSA scientist ponders; "We need another one?"

  5. Re:Poindexter is no Poindexter by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    They want to play six degrees of Kevin Bacon?!?!

  6. The Pentagon wants MY secrets? by Junior+J.+Junior+III · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.

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  7. Re:Scary Quote from Article by dattaway · · Score: 4, Funny

    Private enterprises will surely object to the inconvenience...

    Two words: tax breaks.

  8. Re:Checks and Balances? by r2ravens · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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  9. Can you imagine a beowulf cluster... by gregwbrooks · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...of individual liberties being trashed?

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  10. corp crooks by natefanaro · · Score: 3, Funny

    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?

  11. the Pentagon and my secrets by inode_buddha · · Score: 2, Funny

    SELECT * FROM internet WHERE pr0n > 0

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