Re: U.S. Plans Massive Data Sweep

["Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" <rMslade () shaw ca>]

Date sent:              Sun, 12 Feb 2006 11:30:08 -0500
From:                   Dude VanWinkle <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>

> Let me play devils advocate for a sec:
> On some/future/date, Paul Schmehl <pauls () utdallas edu> could write:
> So you want to give the Terrorists the -plans to the white house
> security system, and let Them know when and where the president is
> going to be at all times as well as disclose the positions of our
> nukes to the Commies?
> /devils_advocate

Sure.  In return, you know where the terrorists are at all times, as well as their 
plans for attacking you.  What's the problem?

(Well, you set up a stupid hypothetical, you get a stupid situation.)

You know where the Commies have their nukes, and the serial numbers (and 
locations, and current armed state) of the ones they sold to the terrorists.

> So is the book saying that total transparency is the way to go,.. or
> just that the information  collected by one group needs to also
> include themselves in the roster that should then be made publicly
> available?

Brin mildly suggests that transparency is the way to go (when you have the 
invasive technologies that currently exist, and towards which we are moving).  
However, mostly he is taking the usual trite privacy arguments and turning them 
upside down.  The results are fascinating.

> I should probably just buy the book, but this is more fun ;-)

*AND* you don't even have to think!

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