Comments on: spying on your internet http://giantmonster.com/2006/05/31/spying-on-your-internet/ Mon, 08 Sep 2008 07:05:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: jamie http://giantmonster.com/2006/05/31/spying-on-your-internet/#comment-239 jamie Thu, 01 Jun 2006 00:52:04 +0000 http://giantmonster.com/2006/05/31/spying-on-your-internet/#comment-239 I heard an interesting speech by Al Gore (given to the Civil Liberties Union) where he made the point that after the 9/11 attacks the terrorists were identified within a matter of a few days. The fact is that the relevant data was already sitting around, but the intelligence community didn't know where to look or what to look for until after the attacks. The weakness in the intelligence community was never in GATHERING data but in ANALYZING it. If searching for baddies is like looking for a needle in a haystack then these expanded info-gathering powers will just be piling more straw onto the haystack... Now, in addition to whatever else was already on his plate, some poor CIA dude is going to have to sift through all my filthy GOOGLE searches before he can find Al Qaeda I heard an interesting speech by Al Gore (given to the Civil Liberties Union) where he made the point that after the 9/11 attacks the terrorists were identified within a matter of a few days.

The fact is that the relevant data was already sitting around, but the intelligence community didn’t know where to look or what to look for until after the attacks. The weakness in the intelligence community was never in GATHERING data but in ANALYZING it.

If searching for baddies is like looking for a needle in a haystack then these expanded info-gathering powers will just be piling more straw onto the haystack…

Now, in addition to whatever else was already on his plate, some poor CIA dude is going to have to sift through all my filthy GOOGLE searches before he can find Al Qaeda

]]> By: DerekMonster http://giantmonster.com/2006/05/31/spying-on-your-internet/#comment-237 DerekMonster Wed, 31 May 2006 22:22:26 +0000 http://giantmonster.com/2006/05/31/spying-on-your-internet/#comment-237 that's very unsettling .. thanks for the heads up, ... now i KNOW they're watching us. that’s very unsettling .. thanks for the heads up, … now i KNOW they’re watching us.

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