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Newly Declassified FBI Docs Reveal Predictive Data System
An anonymous reader writes 'Newly declassified documents show that the FBI is developing a data-mining system to uncover terror sleeper cells. Among the 1.6 billion records in the National Security Analysis Center — tens of thousands of travel records, including hotel and airline records. Other revelations in the documents uncovered by a Wired.com FOIA request show that the feds want to expand the system for use in cyber-crime investigations, and it's already been used to scrutinize helicopter pilots and Philly cab drivers. The system has eerie resemblances to DARPA's once-banned Total Information Awareness program."
I wouldn't be so sure about that - I've heard there are machines available nowadays which are specifically designed to store and rapidly process information in vast amounts. They're called conpewters or something like that.
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"Deviate from your normal routine in very absurd and unusual ways for no apparent reason."
But I do that every day already!
You are not a brain: http://books.google.com/books?id=2oV61CeDx-YC
Yes, that's exactly how they do it.
Also, I have evidence that aliens control McDonalds.
And Obama is really a woman.
-- Braden's law of data: All data spends some of its lifetime in an excel spreadsheet.
This is using Pascal's Wager as an argument to continue black budget funding. There have been several thwarted attacks like the liquid bomb plot in the UK, and these haven't been causing full blown panic. Do you think there will ever be another shoebomber, or did the very public incapacitation of John Walker Lindh by concerned, untrained passengers suddenly furnish a very real deterrent on any future flight?
John Walker Lindh was the "American Taliban," Richard Colvin Reid was the "Shoe Bomber."
I prefer Johnnie Walker Gold, Green or Blue, personally...
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What is this, 1985?
In light of the subject matter, I would say no, it is 1984.
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