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Wisconsin Joins the Matrix [updated]

Posted by timothy on from the suspected-of-cheese dept.

unassimilatible writes "Wired reports that Wisconsin has decided to join a controversial interstate antiterrorism database that holds billions of records of ordinary Americans' activities known as the MATRIX, or Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange. Is your state next?" Update: 03/10 19:05 GMT by T : Thanks to reader philthedrill for a correction: according to an article in the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Daily Cardinal, Wisconsin has backed out of the Matrix, effective yesterday.

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  1. More rejected stories... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Cnet is reporting that Texas-based Symbiot plans to release a corporate defense system that fights back against distributed denial-of-service and hacker attacks by launching counterstrikes. See the press report and white paper for more.

  2. May I be the first to say by mhesseltine · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    "Whoa!"

    Now that that joke is over, do people really think that having all this information in one setup is going to improve anything? After all, look what happens when massive numbers of users try to access one particular resource at the same time (Slashdotting, Farking, September 11).

    It seems like this MATRIX is going to require a huge amount of potential bandwidth, computing resources, etc. which will cost us (the taxpayers) more money.

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  3. open source! by pizza_milkshake · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    in a boost to the open source movement, the gov't has announced it will be implementing the Giant Database of Evil(tm) in postgresql

    </sarcasm>