Saturday, December 21, 2002

Will they or won't they? Evidently NY Times got it wrong when they said the Administration would create a central monitoring system for the net.  Skeptic says, who do you believe? InfoWorld: U.S. government denies plans for Net monitoring system. A representative for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security denied a report Friday that the U.S. government was planning to release a proposal requiring ISPs to help build a centralized system designed to monitor Internet use. [Tomalak's Realm] 8:40:33 AM

Intelligence is necessary, but... A panel decided that none of the 3.400 subjects in the police files should have been there.  How do you give law enforcement the freedom to do what is necessary to protect the public while ensuring that that freedom is not used to abuse our own? Going Electronic, Denver Reveals Long-Term Surveillance. Hailed widely as a major tool in the war against terrorism, police intelligence software has its pitfalls. By Ford Fessenden with Michael Moss. [New York Times: NYT HomePage] 8:36:11 AM