Fighting Terrorists Through Software, Anonymously?

Posted by simoniker on Wednesday March 17, 2004 @10:38PM from the i'm-not-who-you-think-i-am dept.

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."

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Re:Freedom for security by drooling-dog · 2004-03-18 02:08 · Score: 0, Troll

When will people learn that labelling people "terrorists" and killing them just creates new "terrorists" at an exponential rate?
Call me cynical, but I don't think that the Bushies are too concerned about that. They will say, "Bring 'em on," because what they really need is for the threat and the fear it creates to persist while they pursue the destruction of civil liberties and the feudalization of American society.