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Previous Politech message: "Pentagon wants a 'Big Brother' supercomputer, from NYT" http://www.politechbot.com/p-04151.html ----- Forwarded message from owner-politech@politechbot.com ----- 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? ----- End forwarded message ----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/ Recent CNET News.com articles: http://news.search.com/search?q=declan -------------------------------------------------------------------------