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--- Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 11:55:46 -0600 From: Trammell Hudson <hudson@osresearch.net> To: declan@well.com Subject: Sybase offers "PATRIOTcompliance Solution" Sometimes it seems that the writers for the Onion have escaped into the real world... The database company Sybase has details on their "USA PATRIOT Act: COMPLIANCE or CONSEQUENCES" software: http://www.sybase.com/solutions/patriotact It is an entire package designed to automate snooping into their users' customers' lives. Among other things, it features automated notifaction of FinCEN and the FBI for suspicious transaction. Trammell -- -----|----- hudson@osresearch.net W 240-283-1700 *>=====[]L\ hudson@rotomotion.com M 505-463-1896 ' -'-`- http://www.swcp.com/~hudson/ KC5RNF ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------