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was a paid
government informer.

And the FBI won't delete the file of the kid who aspires to be in our Foreign
Service, but made the mistake of writing to foreign embassies in grade school.

Poor schmuck.

The FBI wants to keep "suspect" information on anyone in its NCIC 2000 system.

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Some people feel the smart card will quickly give away to implantable
biometric transponders. Once everyone is fingerprinted, you may as well!

Guess what?

They exist, and aren't that big:

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for security and compliance purposes.

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Security Incident Report 10/29/96

Joseph Busy: working on another
job while within XXX XXXXXX XXXXXX
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Aggregate email from Joseph Busy shows he is very involved in running
a business on the side. At the least, he is directing the efforts of
others who work in his other company via his XXXXXX email.

Among the shots he is calling for:

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No wonder there are militias.

It gets worse.

Much worse.

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Wild Conspiracy Theory
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This is an expanded version of a posting I made promoting unregulated
(free from government-has-the-key) cryptography.

Attorney John Loftus is the author of four histories of intelligence
operations. As a former prosecutor with the U.S. Justice Department's
Nazi-hunting unit, he had unprecedented access to top-secret CIA and
NATO archives. Mark Aarons is an investigative reporter and author of
several books on intelligence related issues.

One day I was flipping channels, and came across "The Leon Charney Show".

Attorney Charney was interviewing Attorney Loftus, who has many many
connections in the intelligence world.

Mr. Loftus described a room in NSA's Fort Meade that was actually British
soil (diplomatic territory), with a British guard posted outside...

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Cybernetics is, in a word, awesome.

A cyberneticist can talk from atoms to cells to nervous systems, to
management of a company, country, world, solar system.

Whether an organism is mechanical, biological or social, it requires
a feedback mechanism to survive.

Your nervous system does some amazing things to fight off infections.

It creates custom anti-bodies to attack foreign microbes.
Custom living cells created through a system of feedback to spot that
there was a problem, analysis of the problem, action on the problem.

This is a life-sustaining feedback 'homeostatic' loop.

[bracket comments are mine]
When Stafford Beer says Cyberstride needed to filter 'homeostatic loops':

* "The Human Use of Human Beings - Cybernetics and Society"
* by Norbert Wiener, 1954, pre-ISBN
*
* The process [such as that employed by our nervous system] by which we
* living beings resist the general stream of corruption and decay is
* known as homeostasis.

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situations by allies.

Under development is even more sophisticated "topic recognition" which
can home in on guarded conversations that avoid potential trigger words.

Nothing and no one is exempt.

For example, you are talking on the telephone to a friend discussing
your son's school play. "Boy," you say sadly, "Bobby really bombed last
night," or perhaps you use the word "assassination" or "sabotage" or any
one of the key words the computer has been told to flag.

A hard copy of your conversation is produced, passed to the appropriate
section (in this case terrorism), and probably ends up in the garbage.

But perhaps the conversation is not so clear-cut or the analyst has poor
judgement. Then your name is permanently filed under "possible terrorist".
Weeks or even years later, you have a similar conversation and use the
same words; the computer filters it out again. Since this is your second
time, your name moves from the "possible" to the "probable" file.

Sound absurd? Not at all; it actually happened while I was at CSE.
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