8 Nov
2001
8 Nov
'01
4:37 p.m.
On 8 Nov 2001, at 11:58, Greg Broiles wrote:
It's a popular fantasy, this idea that people will faithfully report a "true name" which can be matched to a database of past actions which will reliably predict future behavior - but it's a failure in every way, from the notion of a true, unique name, to the idea that access to dossiers can be both widely available and reliable, to the idea that it's possible to know what someone will do tomorrow based on knowledge of his behavior in the past.
Right. To be brutally specific, identification is generally useless for preventing suicide bombings, because suicide bombers tend not to be repeat offenders. George