Cool - with semantic enhancement, they can make your words mean whatever they want them to mean. You don't even have to dissent anymore!!

And it will be the target of every serious hacker in the world. I imagine that it will be so plagued with not just computer viruses but computer worms and the first generation of computer plagues. Oh well I am a loyal citizen so I don't worry. Are you pure? Do you love your country? Do you love the leader? Only time will tell.

<The US government is developing a massive computer system that can collect huge amounts of data>

I thought the US had this already? They have been working on better software, as well as individual agencies who are not supposed to have access to NSA info. Well they can not use it in court.

"Starlight" has been around a while, check it...
gis.esri.com/library/use...586/p586.htm

Same shit really, with different names. Total Information Awareness etc.

The plot thickens.

Yeah, so I have a related bit of interest along these same lines here...

The other night I'm poking around in my firewall log (kind of a habitual occurance, I'll admit), and I came across an odd IP addy which just begged for further examination, so I start tracking down IP owners and looking at all the associations to them and dynamics surrounding them, right?

Well, I think I hit on something here, but I need some help tracking down more about it.

The IP in question was owned by one UUNet Technologies (remember them?) - the first commercial providers of the internet?

Well, apparently, this company is *supposed to be* defunct and disbanded and no longer utilized, according to press releases from MCI back when they were Worldcom when they *supposedly* "retired" that portion of the business in 2002 after it had been aquired by MCI/Worldcom...

Now, on the surface, this all seems like very typical big business news, right? Well, then you consider the nature and scope of situations surrounding the MCI/Worldcom bankrupcy filings (the biggest case of corporate fraud in history), which they still managed to bounce back from magically after the SEC *took possession of stock in the company* with due pressure being applied by the Dept. of Justice. Supposedly, this stock was supposed to be earmarked for return to investors... (unconfirmed - although why investors who were already invested in a company would want excess stock in a company that was getting filing for bankrupcy makes little sense, financially).

Anyways, I don't want to spoil too many of the details, lest I bias anyone's findings, should they choose to pursue this, but if you ask me, I'm on to something *a little fishy*, when you consider that UUNet Technologies, Inc's backbone is what IPv6 is getting based on (even though it technically doesn't exist as a business entity anymore, and if the paperwork is to be believed is now held by Verizon), and there just *happens* to be some strange dynamics and stories related to it and various govt. agencies in the past.

But, assuming that we can all agree that the govts stance on data collection being rather ubiquitous, I think if anyone was ever going to find concrete proof that the government's "public release" of DARPANet to the public to be a complete BS line and that the companies which run it ultimately tie back to the US govt, it's in here somewhere...

Any other data hounds out there up for a hunt? :)

<Because of our new laws we can be treated any way they want to treat us. Most people don't realize that now we have laws in place that Joseph Stalin wished he would have thought of.>

They are changing so many laws in the guise of the war on terror, just as they changed laws in the guise of the war on Drugs.

I am really not too worried about little known data mining tools, as I have known of many for a very long time.

check these out:
www.globalsecurity.org/intell/index.html

www.globalsecurity.org/securi...ex.html
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