The Pentagon Wants a 'TiVo' to Watch You

An anonymous reader writes "Danger Room, a Wired blog, today cites a study of future electronic snooping technologies from Reuters, written by the Pentagon's Defense Science Board. More than anything, it seems these outside advisers want a surveillance system that would put Big Brother to shame, and they're looking at the commercial sector to provide it. 'The ability to record terabyte and larger databases will provide an omnipresent knowledge of the present and the past that can be used to rewind battle space observations in TiVo-like fashion and to run recorded time backwards to help identify and locate even low-level enemy forces. For example, after a car bomb detonates, one would have the ability to play high-resolution data backward in time to follows the vehicle back to the source, and then use that knowledge to focus collection and gain additional information by organizing and searching through archived data.'"

In the United States of America...

[drewzhrodague]

In the United States of America, government TV watches YOU!

I'm sorry, I had to.

In Soviet Russia...

[Anonymous Coward]

You watch TiVos

Where is this service provided?

[ATAMAH]

Geographically, would it be in Soviet Russia, by any chance?

A shame

[Chairboy]

It's a shame, if they had chosen ReplayTV instead, they could automatically skip commercials.

Nothing new here

[The Dobber]

Jack Bauer and his pals at CTU have been Tivo'ing us for at least six seasons.

Re:Wouldn't It Be Easier Just To...

[Hotawa Hawk-eye]

Yes, but think of the defense contractors that contribute heavily to both political parties! Won't someone think of the defense contractors?

Re:In the United States of America...

[Ankou]

You know let em do it. It will be nekkid time all the time in my house if they put one in. Nothing is more of a deterant than a hairy fat guy eating cheese nekkid on the couch. Hey Uncle Sam, hope ya like what you see, wink!

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[pagerwho]

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Re:Wouldn't It Be Easier Just To...

[Creepy Crawler]

What?! The magical crystal I bought for 300$ from my local fortuneteller wont actually stop my cancer???

She promised in the tarot reading that my cancer was in remission!!

Re:Wouldn't It Be Easier Just To...

[Triv]

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Oh yeah? I work in Marketing.

Your move, Trebek!

Triv

In My Home!

[JBHarris]

I've been TiVoing Jack Bauer and his pals at CTU for six seasons!

Re:Wouldn't It Be Easier Just To...

[vux984]

Flouride in water supplies is beneficial. The others aren't.

Do you realize that fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous Communist plot we have ever had to face?

Have you never wondered why I drink only distilled water, or rainwater, and only pure-grain alcohol?

I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.