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Re: DHS Wants Cell Phones to Detect Chemical, Radioactive Material


From: Florian Weimer <fw () deneb enyo de>
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 11:09:35 +0200

* Valdis Kletnieks:

And the guys back at Spook Central do what?

Easy: they record the location information for data mining.  For this
purpose, you actually want a high false positive rate.  As a bonus,
you can argue for covert alerts because the subscriber is unable to
tell a false positive from a real issue.
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