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Feds Open 'Total' Tech Spy System
Wired News ^ | 8/7/02 | Eliot Borin

Posted on 11/15/2002 10:17:28 AM PST by ksen

Edited on 06/29/2004 7:09:32 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

Had Winston Churchill been alive in the months subsequent to Sept. 11 he might well have described U.S. intelligence agencies' performance prior to the attack thusly: Never have so many known so much and done so little.

On Wednesday, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) will begin awarding contracts for the design and implementation of a Total Information Awareness (TIA) system.


(Excerpt) Read more at wired.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: 1984; bigbrother; privacylist; techindex
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I just heard about this on Glenn Beck's show. Sounds creepy to me.

Information Awareness Office







"Scienta est potentia"=Knowledge is Power

Projects being worked on by the IAO:

1) Collaboration and sharing over TCP/IP networks across agency boundaries
2) Large, distributed repositories with dynamic schemas that can be changed interactively by users
3) Foreign language machine translation and speech recognition
4) Biometric signatures of humans
5) Real time learning, pattern matching and anomalous pattern detection
6) Entity extraction from natural language text Human network analysis and behavior model building engines
7) Event prediction and capability development model building engines
8) Structured argumentation and evidential reasoning
9) Story telling, change detection, and truth maintenance
10) Business rules sub-systems for access control and process management
11) Biologically inspired algorithms for agent control
12) Other aids for human cognition and human reasoning

Anybody have any idea what that highlighted stuff means? At first blush it sure doesn't sound good.

1 posted on 11/15/2002 10:17:28 AM PST by ksen
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To: ksen
Note to self....Buy Oracle.
2 posted on 11/15/2002 10:19:00 AM PST by HEY4QDEMS
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To: Jeff Head; Travis McGee; harpseal
Just interested in your takes on this new office.
3 posted on 11/15/2002 10:19:11 AM PST by ksen
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To: ksen
That logo is just disturbing. (As is this program).
4 posted on 11/15/2002 10:20:55 AM PST by ThinkDifferent
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To: HEY4QDEMS
Wow, 2 minutes to reply.

What'd you think of the article and the links?

Is this something that we should be worried about now? Sometime in the future? Never?
5 posted on 11/15/2002 10:21:00 AM PST by ksen
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To: ksen; *tech_index; Mathlete; Apple Pan Dowdy; grundle; beckett; billorites; One More Time; ...
Yikes!

OFFICIAL BUMP(TOPIC)LIST

6 posted on 11/15/2002 10:21:52 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: ThinkDifferent
The logo is disturbing to me too.

If you click on the link to the IAO's homepage you can see the different programs they have. One of them they named "Babylon".

I don't know who is charge of naming stuff and coming up with logos, but you'd think they were intentionally trying to set people off.
7 posted on 11/15/2002 10:23:15 AM PST by ksen
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To: JenB; Bear_in_RoseBear; g'nad
Bump to some of our more techy hobbit types.
8 posted on 11/15/2002 10:24:30 AM PST by ksen
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To: Sam Cree; PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain; angelo; SoothingDave
FYI

Bump...
9 posted on 11/15/2002 10:25:35 AM PST by ksen
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To: ksen
Yoink!!

BTW what do you think of Glenn's show? Personally I love it. A great mix of entertainment and info. I think he's got some promise for the future.

10 posted on 11/15/2002 10:28:12 AM PST by Damocles
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To: ksen
Let me be the first!

The catholic church has got to be behind this. :)

BigMack

11 posted on 11/15/2002 10:29:40 AM PST by PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain
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To: ksen
The proposed bill would expand DARPA's capacity but as I understand, a warrent would still be required to gather private info.

As for worrying, I say never stop worrying and always be aware for if we let down our guard now or in the future things could change not for the better.
12 posted on 11/15/2002 10:33:18 AM PST by HEY4QDEMS
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To: Damocles
The first couple times I listened to Beck's show I didn't like him.

However, I found him again on Election day and have been listening to him since. I wouldn't be surprised to see him on more than 400-500 stations in the next couple of years.
13 posted on 11/15/2002 10:35:58 AM PST by ksen
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To: ksen
Is this the Illuminati division of the Pentagon?

Wierd. Makes me think of those Denver airport murals and icons.

14 posted on 11/15/2002 10:44:58 AM PST by angkor
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; *Privacy_list
I think privacy is the appropriate bump list
http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/bump-list
15 posted on 11/15/2002 10:49:53 AM PST by Free the USA
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To: HEY4QDEMS
I'm kind of wondering why we haven't heard about this in the news. It can't be THAT well hidden, after all, I found it and was able to post it.

Is this something we can count on the Republicans getting rid of?................BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Is this a done deal?
16 posted on 11/15/2002 10:51:37 AM PST by ksen
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To: ksen
what is the deal with the eye on top of the pyramid? does it have any symbolic meaning?
17 posted on 11/15/2002 10:51:40 AM PST by goldylight
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To: HEY4QDEMS
Oracle? ... Enlighten, please!
18 posted on 11/15/2002 10:54:54 AM PST by Highest Authority
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To: Highest Authority
they make database software....
19 posted on 11/15/2002 10:57:05 AM PST by goldylight
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To: goldylight
I don't know the deal on that symbol. It is on the back of our one dollar bill with some latin words that mean "New World Order."

I have heard some people say it is the symbol of the Illuminati, or the Masons. The weirdest one I heard today was on Glenn Beck's show when he said the eye represented the Babylonian god Baal(sp?).

I couldn't tell you what it actually means.
20 posted on 11/15/2002 10:57:54 AM PST by ksen
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