| Islaw was a hot story once, and I'm sure someone made out in some interesting way, but software tinfoil has a very short shelf-life.
Horsefeathers. It's a fill-in-the-blanks, field oriented, application generator. It's like Microsoft Access, except with the feature set of a 1970's ASCII-tube interface, and a flat file system instead of a relational database. My humble opinion is that all articles about PROMIS that allege use after about 1990 belong in the Art Bell Wing of the Interesting Theories Museum. |
I wish it did have a short life, but alas, this one does not. The word "Promis" has become a Magic Word in the tinfoil community. This is primitive database software written for PDP-11's in the 1970's (and subsequently ported to many other minicomputer-class machines, now all extinct) that supposedly, in the hands of the intelligence agencies, has become a state-of-the-art Knows All Sees All piece of Internet-aware spyware that can peer into foreign banks and track the movements of bad guys.