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Florida's Version Of TIA May Spread To Other States

Posted by timothy on from the over-your-shoulder dept.

Annoying Cowwart writes "Looks like TIA is coming back, this time through the by-the States-but-all-together backdoor. Now called M.A.T.R.I.X. ('Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange'). See the Washington Post article for details. I wonder: do they have to try hard to find such apt names for their projects or does it come naturally? (For German speakers, there is another article about this in Der Spiegel.)"

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  1. And in other news... by JohnGrahamCumming · · Score: 4, Funny

    The Skynet funding bill just passed.

  2. Wrong department by TopShelf · · Score: 4, Funny

    Considering that this is coming around "through the back door" I'd suggest a change from "the over-your-shoulder dept."...

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    1. Re:Wrong department by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      from the "watch out for your cornhole dept"

  3. M.A.T.R.I.X? Try M.A.T.I.E by wowbagger · · Score: 4, Funny

    Multistate
    Anti
    Terrorism
    Information
    Exchange

    Now, how the hell do you get MATRIX out of that?

    More like MATIE, as in:
    "ARR MATIE, we be getting the blackmail goods on the serfs, arrr!"

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  4. In other news.. by Genjurosan · · Score: 4, Funny

    Melchior-1, Balthasar-2, and Casper-3 just entered QA testing. It's expected that when all 3 systems are deployed to production, the M.A.T.R.I.X system will use the MAGI computers to determine if the citizen in question should be eliminated.

    1. Re:In other news.. by mystik · · Score: 5, Funny

      All we need now is to figure out how to clone a blue-haired 14-year-old-girl to pilot a large robot to defend it...

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  5. Re:Heh.. by Ominous+Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Actually, if you read only the first letters, it spells "MATIE". I suppose they weren't going for much of a pirate theme though. "Yarr, matie, we be catchin' us some terrorists, arr.."

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  6. Re:Whoa.... by Safety+State · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sure, you may joke, but there's an important reason for government surveillance of consumer habits.

    Terrorists are everywhere. Yes, even in your breakfast cereal. Did you ever doubt it when they started checking supermarket discount records?

    Now you tell me: who's going to protect you when terrorists hitch a ride straight to your basement in that new Sears washer box?

    http://safetystate.com/ss.cgi?action=material&id=2 3

  7. Sort of an improvement by diabolik333 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, at least a drug-smuggling-pilot-turned-snitch is a somewhat better person to have in charge of all of our personal information than Disgraced Iran-Contra Felon John Poindexter (as El Reg tends to call him... or something similar).

    Anyone who can remember back to the year 2000 knows that the State of Florida can certainly be trusted to handle millions of documents in an appropriate fashion.