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Turning the tables on TIA and crooked Poindexter

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y6y6y6Person was signed in when posted
12-03-2002
03:12 PM ET (US)
 "Isn't this kind of the point? To put him under his own microscope?"

No. The point is just to harass someone you don't like.

TIA has nothing to do with giving private information to the government. TIA assumes this data will already be available. TIA's goal is to create a unified database so that profiles can be queried against a single data set.

The danger is that security agencies will come up with bogus profiles or flag people for innocent things which none the less fall into an incriminating pattern.

In addition there will be a chiiling effect on freedom if people know the FBI's computers are watching their every site visit and purchase.

A prank phone call has nothing in common with this. It's just a prank phone call. What makes you think he (or his neighbors for fuck sake) would even associate this with TIA?

"software companies' unwillingness to provide formats that share information"

Unfortunately overcoming this is the expressed goal of TIA. And we're talking about databases here. I don't know about *any* database that can't be extracted to a delimited text file. Hidden standards and formats won't slow things down much.
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Kernel SantosPerson was signed in when posted
12-03-2002
02:15 PM ET (US)
 chico: One of the best deterrents will be software companies' unwillingness to provide formats that share information ;-) Reject standards for freedom!!!
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roadknightPerson was signed in when posted
12-03-2002
01:56 PM ET (US)
 Wimp!
Isn't this kind of the point?
To put him under his own microscope?

"Oh, I'm sorry...I didn't mean to embarass YOU Mr. Hitler"
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DaveFarisPerson was signed in when posted
12-03-2002
01:23 PM ET (US)
 Well, it's neither here nor there, Cory. Matt yanked the thread... decided it was too immature and crass, especially about calling Poindexter's neighbors. Didn't like the blatant divulging of his personal information -- which is the whole point of this effing exercise. Oh well. I like the idea of collecting information about the guy, though.
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chico haasPerson was signed in when posted
12-03-2002
12:09 PM ET (US)
 One of the most effective deterrents to TIA's success will be the genetic unwillingness of competing intelligence agencies to share information.
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DaveFarisPerson was signed in when posted
12-03-2002
09:58 AM ET (US)
 eep!
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Cory DoctorowPerson was signed in when posted
12-03-2002
09:38 AM ET (US)
 Course not! Though Matt's server's down. Maybe it fell prey to the dreaded Rear Admiral.
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DaveFarisPerson was signed in when posted
12-03-2002
09:34 AM ET (US)
 I re-posted this on Mefi, Cory. Hope you don't mind.
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