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DARPA to Fund TIA Study
clonebarkins writes "Federal Computer Week has an article on a DARPA-funded study of privacy-related concerns related to TIA. "We envision software that will mask the identity of any individual whose pattern of activities triggers the suspicion of investigators," says the program manager of the Information and Intelligence Exploitation Division. Yeah, sure--that'll happen about as soon as Ashcroft converts to Islam."
why even have any sort of inter active website, with commentary being a main part of the whole construct?
That's the deal here, come up with an article, use your born with rights to drop an opinion, add more links to support your case, perhaps, and so on. Get the ball rolling. That's a valid point he made, it's a sarcastic comment to make a political point-what the government says and what it does is more often than not two different things. That is called "lying" what they do a lot, and there's so much evidence of it now that anything big brother inc says should be taken with several large handfuls of salt. ESPECIALLY when it comes to privacy concerns, actually following constitutional law, respecting people's BORN-WITH not government-granted "rights". They are big fat lying goons when it comes to that, the editor was being too kind if you ask me. And they think they own you, that they have all the power, and you don't, and they can throw you a bone at their leisure. Goons. I wouldn't buy a used skateboard from them, let alone believe them on anything really important. Putting poindexter in charge? That guy? Mr blatantly lie to congress? Mr. veracity himself? Ha!
I do believe, though, their entire purpose was summed up quite nicely with that first symbol they used for TIA, the all seeing cult control eye over the planet, and the word "total". Now that I believe, that is their true intentions, now it's spin control, just like they spin most everything.
Just like at waco when the tank was smashing it's way in and they kept broadcasting "THIS IS NOT AN ASSAULT!"
Puh-leeze. Slashdot is news for nerds, stuff that matters, then we discuss it, cuss it, opinionate on it, rant on and rave on. It's a nice formula,it's not perfect but it "works" and all in all it ain't that "broken". Ya we get some dupes, oh well, if you missed it before it's handy, if you saw it before easy enough to not click on it. Besides that I am just not seeing this website being "wrong", it's pretty good really. If all you want is raw data, try google news. really easy to use and navigate. Of course, all or most of those articles are spun as well, just the nature of the reporting/politics/business beast. It's almost impossible to find anything news-like written by a human that doesn't have an opinion angle included with it. The article submitters and editors are "human", it's just going to happen. It just is. Everyone here has a free shot at it, to submit their own story for discussion. There are more important things to be upset over.
my 2 coins, nothing personal at all