FC: Pentagon's Big Brother computer: Echelon on steroids?

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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"Pentagon wants a 'Big Brother' supercomputer, from NYT"
http://www.politechbot.com/p-04151.html


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Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 07:44:44 -0500
To: politech () politechbot com
From: Jeremy Epstein <jeremy.epstein () cox net>
Subject: Re: FC: Pentagon wants a "Big Brother" supercomputer, from NYT

Also reported in Wash Post at 
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40942-2002Nov11.html (no 
registration required).

It's a well funded program: "The system proposed by Poindexter and funded 
by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) at about $200 
million a year, would be able to sweep up and analyze data in a much more 
systematic way. It would provide a more detailed look at data than the 
super-secret National Security Agency now has, the former Navy admiral said. "

Now if those ain't reassuring words.... Echelon on steroids?



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