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What's Your Terrorism Quotient?

Posted by michael on from the red-ball dept.

unassimilatible writes "From the Department of Pre-Crime, the AP reports: before helping to launch the criminal information project known as Matrix (Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange), a database contractor gave U.S. and Florida authorities the names of 120,000 people who showed a statistical likelihood of being terrorists - sparking some investigations and arrests. The 'high terrorism factor' scoring system also became a key selling point for the involvement of the database company, Seisint Inc., in the Matrix project. According to Seisint's presentation, dated January 2003 and marked confidential, the 120,000 names with the highest scores were given to the INS, FBI, Secret Service and Florida state police. Seisint and the law enforcement officials who oversee Matrix insist that the terrorism scoring system ultimately was kept out of the project, largely because of privacy concerns."

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  1. hmmm by ziggyboy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Minority Report meets the Matrix.

  2. Would be interesting to find out by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Judging by the title, I thought the article was going to tell us how to find out our score.

    "There is a 20% likelyhood of you blowing up a building this year. Have a nice day."

    1. Re:Would be interesting to find out by Enlarge+Your+Penis · · Score: 5, Funny

      Going by the current success of counter insurgency measures in Iraq, I think you just roll some dice and add them together

  3. In related news... by k4_pacific · · Score: 5, Funny

    OSDN announced today that the Slashdot Karma system will be integrated with the Terrorist Quotient database.

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    1. Re:In related news... by ENOENT · · Score: 5, Funny

      As a result, the FBI has placed "Anonymous Coward" on their Most Wanted List.

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  4. Might as well seed the system a bit..... by southpolesammy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Bomb, gas, crash, Afghanistan, airplane, fire, biowarfare, sarin, nuclear, Muqtada Al-Sadr, barbarism, CIA, Al-Qaida, terrorist, seize, drugs, fertilizer, kill, plot, chemical, RPG, bin Laden, canister, Iraq, plague, sniper, sleeper cell, C4, guerilla, Barbara Streisand

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  5. Re:It's tin-foil hat time again!! by 0123456 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I hope you realise that being seen wearing a tin-foil hat will immediately add 15,000,000,000 points to your Terrorist Quotient: after all, if you're paranoid, you must be doing something illegal.

  6. Re:Fuck you America by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I want an America that isn't full of easily amused idiots watching crap on TV.

    Yeah? Well, I want an America full of nymphomaniac supermodels who own breweries. Deal.

  7. My TQ? I'm not cleared to know that! by Tackhead · · Score: 5, Funny
    > "What's Your Terrorism Quotient?"

    I'm sorry, I'm not cleared to know that. If I could tell you, I'd have to kill me.

  8. Re:Relevant quote by meringuoid · · Score: 5, Funny
    Anyone care to guess one of the main sources of terrorist income?

    Donations from sympathetic Americans who think they're Irish?

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