US plans massive data sweep

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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Subject:        Re: [IP] US plans massive data sweep
Date:   Thu, 09 Feb 2006 10:14:52 -0600
From:   John Lyon <jelyon () mac com>
To:     dave () farber net



For IP if appropriate.

"Protecting our freedoms" and making sure we don't "get hit again" are two
different things. Even acknowledging the immense human cost of 9/11, I would
still suggest that 9/11 was only peripherally an attack on our "freedoms,"
and the outer periphery at that. Seems to me it was primarily an attack on
several high value targets - a limited economic attack, if you will,
designed also to spread fear.

An attack on "our freedoms" can really only come from inside our borders -
from our own government, or from a government put in place by victorious
foreign invaders.

On 2/9/06 5:43 AM, "Dave Farber" <dave () farber net> either wrote, forwarded
or quoted:

> Starlight has already helped foil some terror plots, says Jim Thomas,
> one of its developers and director of the government's new National
> Visualization Analytics Center in Richland, Wash. He can't elaborate
> because the cases are classified, he adds. But "there's no question that
> the technology we've invented here at the lab has been used to protect
> our freedoms - and that's pretty cool."

--
John Lyon
Austin TX




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