Fighting Terrorists Through Software, Anonymously?

Silwenae writes "MSNBC has a story online from this week's Newsweek about Jeff Jonas, founder of System Research and Development. SRD's software attempts to verify a person is who he says he is, and then tries to determine who that person may be connected with. Originally used in casinos, the CIA has invested in SRD for use in the war against terrorism. Apparently, Jonas has developed a system that can anonymize the data being analyzed through hashing, so the government can share this information with the private sector to look for hits, without the private sector seeing the specific data."

Comments

Re:This is getting absurd

[bvdbos]

Don't you forget the "right" to carry handguns? That alone costs more lives then the twintowers...

Re:definition of "war against terrorism"?

[Anonymous Coward]

> Can anybody help me and define the limits of the problem "the war against
> terrorism"?

Certainly. It's `anyone who kills civilians, other than governments friendly to the United States`.

So:

Al-queda kills civilians in New York - terrorists.

US kills civilians in Afghanistan - not terrorists.

Al-Queda and iraqis kill americans in iraq - terrorists.

US kills civilians in iraq - not terrorists.

Palestinians kill israelis in palestine - terrorists.

US backed Isreali kill palestinians in palestine - not terrorists.

See - it's easy.

Re:False Positives and False Negatives

[Natestradamus]

Of course, the funny thing about that blacklist was that it was mostly on-target. Don't believe me? Google for "Venona Decrypts". The American Left has ever been the home of traitors and sympathizers, but somehow questioning their patriotism is taboo. Funny that.

There is so much wrong with that post.

[Natestradamus]

The war on terrorism isn't effective? That's not what the Iraqis said in the latest poll. They're glad it happened, the mad bombers are just the lunatic fringe. Well armed, but lunatic.

"Until America wakes up"? Tell that to the Spanish. They just got bombed for repelling the moors in the last crusade, their participation in Afghanistan and Iraq was just icing on the cake. Yes, that's right, Afghanistan. The war with UN approval. I guess nobody told the terrorists that the UN said it was okay.

"Peace with terrorists"? That's the biggest chimera of them all. They want you dead, they do not care if you are liberal, neocon, or centrist. If you want peace with them you have to put your woman in a headscarf and chuck out all your technology. America needs to wake up? No, sir, you need to wake up.