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Sadly if you keep stuff in secret you could try this justification - the person spies on terrorists - so you have connection to them. S/He is connected to you s
by venomsnake 13y ago
Sadly if you keep stuff in secret you could try this justification - the person spies on terrorists - so you have connection to them. S/He is connected to you so is only two hops away. So is legitimate person of interest.
- abraxasz 13y agoYeah but following this logic, the analyst himself becomes a person of interest since connected to his former spouse..
- jerf 13y agoYes, they are. That's why they have to go through the invasive process of getting clearance. Believe me, I'm not claiming it's a perfect process or that it has been perfectly applied, but the system as a whole does acknowledge that analysts are intrinsically "persons of interest", and takes steps that are at least appropriate in principle to deal with that.
- cypherpunks01 13y agoIf anyone's read the Philip K. Dick novel A Scanner Darkly, this conversation is teeming on the book's plot where the protagonist is assigned to spy on himself and his associates.