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> From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org
> [mailto:lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org] On Behalf Of Joseph Wanzala
> Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2005 3:40 PM
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Subject: RE: [lbo-talk] PTECH, 9/11, and USA-SAUDI TERROR
>
>
<<SNIP mountain of gibberish>>
>
> Total Information Awareness or TIA, an Orwellian nightmare of
> data mining
> that uses PROMIS-evolved technologies and artificial
> intelligence, is now
> operating and able to incorporate vastly divergent data bases
> of personal
> information on private citizens from computer systems using different
> languages in near-real-time.
<<SNIP mountain of gibberish>>
Aside from the possibility that the Promis code was stolen, the rest of this post was garbage conspiracism. Promis software was similar to Lotus Notes. There are a dozen similar information mining software packages available. The problem of government surveillance and privacy intrusion is real; but the bulk of the claims in this absurd post were nonsense, drivel, hot air, snake oil, and informational cow patties with a thin icing of fact.
-Chip Berlet