[lbo-talk] Hill refines her posish on war

Andy F andy274 at gmail.com
Sat Mar 17 17:04:00 PDT 2007


On 3/17/07, Jordan Hayes <jmhayes at j-o-r-d-a-n.com> wrote:


> I think that's naive at best. The big point about the current direction
> the surveilance is headed is that it's not even targeted: it's just a
> sweep of all the bits at all the places that are available. That phone
> call you made today will not be the subject of an investigation. But it
> will be available in the future, when you do step out of line, in
> whatever way you will.

And what's more, it doesn't appear that the individual human consequences of either false positives or massively disproportionate action give any pause to those at the controls of this machine.

-- Andy



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