The Pentagon Wants a 'TiVo' to Watch You 256
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.'"
America:Bringing -F-r-e-e-d-o-m-F-r-o-m- Car Bombs (Score:2, Informative)
The irony being that the vast majority of car bombs reported in the media these days are in the last place these very same people "improved." Indeed they are a direct consequence of that improving.
Those that don't study history are doomed to repeat it. It's got to be even more embarassing when you created that screwed up history and prove to the world you still haven't learned.
Re:Wouldn't It Be Easier Just To... (Score:2, Informative)
"Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety"
Re:Wouldn't It Be Easier Just To... (Score:5, Informative)
Flouride in water supplies is beneficial. The others aren't.
The entire pharmaceutical industry could decide to stop fucking everyone over and make the secrets of real whole health known. Simple cures for cancer, diabetics, and other diseases are well known to naturopaths.
Bullshit. Bull shit. Bovine excrement. Quackery. Pseudoscience. Fraud. Snake oil. No doctor on earth would hold back a cure for cancer or diabetes if such a thing existed. Bullshit artists preying on the terminally ill, peddling eye-of-newt potions and magical crystals, are the lowest form of life on the planet.
Re:We do it already (Score:3, Informative)
In that sort of situation you'll get a lot of footage of guys in masks stealing cameras. Over Lebanon the Israeli forces borrowed or bought drones to film from above.
Appease who?The voices in your head? (Score:1, Informative)
Except they weren't the terrorists, they weren't attacking you, the evidence was fake, it was only voices in your head telling you they were a threat.
So what are you appeasing? The voices in your head?
Look, just because someone isn't helping you, doesn't mean they are attacking you.
*Not* attacking people that are *not* attacking you is PERFECTLY NORMAL BEHAVIOR, it's not appeasement.
So why the hell don't you go after Bin Laden? Remember him?
Not new (Score:4, Informative)
For this sort of surveillance to be useful, you'd have to have 24/7 overhead coverage, either radar or optical. That's not something they're going to be able to sneak into a non-battlefield area (i.e. the US). Also, JSTARS coverage of the entire US would be prohibitively expensive.
Re:Wouldn't It Be Easier Just To... (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Wouldn't It Be Easier Just To... (Score:3, Informative)
http://fluoridealert.org/ [fluoridealert.org]