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There's also little analysis (here or elsewhere) of the consequences of widespread data warehousing. Why pay agents to listen to personal calls, when you can st

by lukifer 13y ago

There's also little analysis (here or elsewhere) of the consequences of widespread data warehousing. Why pay agents to listen to personal calls, when you can stockpile intel for the day you might need it, and analyze it via algorithm? I foresee a day when every American has a dossier, a smear campaign, and a law enforcement attack plan on file, in case they decide to "make trouble" for the powerful. It's highly probable we're there already. Look at the history of harassment against MLK if you don't believe me. Even if they're not doing it now, sweeping up all the data in perpetuity guarantees that they'll do it later. (I may disagree with this guy fervently about the NSA, but I'm extremely psyched to try his mayo. Good for him for transitioning into something useful.)

sitkack 13y ago
The dossier exists in the form of all the collected communications. Moores law and Gustafson's law will allow your entire life to sliced, diced and trolled for breaches of the law in seconds. Lazy, deferred evaluation of the police state.
leot 13y ago
It would be great to see a cheerful launch page for a satirical startup that automatically generated smear campaigns for governments against persons of interest. "We use of the expanded information capabilities of our client agencies to maximize the plausibility of our allegations!" Pricing! $8,000: General fear, uncertainty, and doubt (duration: 2 months) $15,000: Complete discrediting (duration: 6 months -- best value!) $50,000: Overturn their life with "Anonymous"-style harassment (e.g. triggered by c pornography "revelations" -- duration: two years)
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- phpnode 13y ago
  if your customers are governments, I think your prices are missing one or more 0s
tripzilch 13y ago
> I'm extremely psyched to try his mayo Why. The only (vaguely) scientific argument the paleo diet has against legumes falls apart when you're just extracting the oils (which is not where the "toxins" are). Apart from that it'd just be an organic no-preservatives mayonnaise, and that's already widely available. It's just another example that this guy will swallow anything you tell him with sufficient amount of authority.

by lukifer 13y ago

sitkack 13y ago

The dossier exists in the form of all the collected communications. Moores law and Gustafson's law will allow your entire life to sliced, diced and trolled for breaches of the law in seconds. Lazy, deferred evaluation of the police state.

leot 13y ago

It would be great to see a cheerful launch page for a satirical startup that automatically generated smear campaigns for governments against persons of interest. "We use of the expanded information capabilities of our client agencies to maximize the plausibility of our allegations!" Pricing! $8,000: General fear, uncertainty, and doubt (duration: 2 months) $15,000: Complete discrediting (duration: 6 months -- best value!) $50,000: Overturn their life with "Anonymous"-style harassment (e.g. triggered by c pornography "revelations" -- duration: two years)

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phpnode 13y ago
if your customers are governments, I think your prices are missing one or more 0s

tripzilch 13y ago

> I'm extremely psyched to try his mayo Why. The only (vaguely) scientific argument the paleo diet has against legumes falls apart when you're just extracting the oils (which is not where the "toxins" are). Apart from that it'd just be an organic no-preservatives mayonnaise, and that's already widely available. It's just another example that this guy will swallow anything you tell him with sufficient amount of authority.