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