TIA: Terrorist Information Awareness
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/21/international/worldspecial/21PRIV.html?tnt... The Total Information Awareness Program has been dressed in drag, now it is the Terrorist Information Awareness Program. Best line: "Saying they are worried about Americans' privacy, Pentagon officials announced in a report today that they were changing the name of a projected system to mine databases for information to help catch terrorists to Terrorist Information Awareness from Total Information Awareness." They're worried about Americans' privacy, so they change the name? How thoughtful of them, I feel better already. -- stuart Anyone who tells you they want a utopia wants to put chains on the souls of your children. They want to deny history and strangle any unforeseen possibility. They should be resisted to the last breath. -Bruce Sterling-
Trusting a renamed TIA to protect our privacy is like trusting a repeat child molester to babysit your 6 year old girl after he changes his name to Alice the Babysitter. ----------------------Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--------------------------- + ^ + :25Kliters anthrax, 38K liters botulinum toxin, 500 tons of /|\ \|/ :sarin, mustard and VX gas, mobile bio-weapons labs, nukular /\|/\ <--*-->:weapons.. Reasons for war on Iraq - GWB 2003-01-28 speech. \/|\/ /|\ :Found to date: 0. Cost of war: $800,000,000,000 USD. \|/ + v + : The look on Sadam's face - priceless! --------_sunder_@_sunder_._net_------- http://www.sunder.net ------------ On Wed, 21 May 2003, stuart wrote:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/21/international/worldspecial/21PRIV.html?tnt...
At 03:09 PM 05/21/2003 -0400, stuart wrote:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/21/international/worldspecial/21PRIV.html?tnt...
The Total Information Awareness Program has been dressed in drag, now it is the Terrorist Information Awareness Program.
Best line: "Saying they are worried about Americans' privacy, Pentagon officials announced in a report today that they were changing the name of a projected system to mine databases for information to help catch terrorists to Terrorist Information Awareness from Total Information Awareness."
They're worried about Americans' privacy, so they change the name? How thoughtful of them, I feel better already.
No, no, you're misunderstanding it. They're renaming it because anybody they want to watch is a terrorist. That's not just the 13 million people on the FBI's Watch List, it's the 250 million suspicious characters they haven't got evidence on yet.
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