Wired News Publishes Damning Docs From EFF vs AT&T

Some people may be aware of recent documents which have come to light in the EFF vs AT&T issue.

Ahem. I mean the recent “US Government vs the Citizens of the world” issue.

Their aim is to build a system that can automatically identify threats based upon a collection of data, and allow humans to act accordingly. The trouble with the system is that while a human can act with discression & humility, humans can not. They fall over each other in a beaurocratic orgy of “care about the issue”. Every single person in a room cares more than the next about any given issue, because every single person deserves more money or more votes than the next. Thus the beurocratic system becomes a binary machine when faced with such data and the end result is “Cmon, lets move on out!”

An efficient computerised system could just as easily replace the human reaction, taking “pre-emtive strikes” against such threats, and automatically counter any ‘threats’, leaving us humans to do what we do best (argue and debate the issues politicians dupe us into caring about)

It’s been a while since i’ve seen Terminator 2, but I remember in the first incarnation, The Governator was a bad guy. Now that’s not to say that “Total Information Awareness” is skynet, but I for one am already looking for a kid with an Atari & a crazy mother.



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