The Pentagon Wants Your Secrets

Posted by timothy on Saturday November 9, 2002 @10:45AM 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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Poindexter? by RobPiano · 2002-11-09 10:48 · Score: 0, Offtopic

This has got to be a joke...
Re:Since im at the karma cap... by mstyne · 2002-11-09 10:53 · Score: 1, Offtopic

dammit, now i've got nothing interesting to say

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Re:Imagine by barnaby · 2002-11-09 12:00 · Score: 0, Offtopic

"witch hunts for terrorists"

Where the fuck were you on 2001.09.11 ?

"plans to 'Preemtivly Strike' nations that pose no real threat to us"

Better we should wait till they nuke New York? And then what would you say??

"Well were not really sure exactly who placed the nuke and were not really sure which country helped them so who can we punish?"

You stand next to a brutal dictator that gases his own people? Instead of standing next to your country?

Get this through your head, the enemy wants to kill you or convert you, your friends, your family. What is your answer to this threat?

And comparing the United States to Nazi fucking Germany?

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