I just don't see how collecting data on 'all the phone calls in the United
States' and 'analyzing them for patterns' will help fight terrorism. That
data base would contain a preponderance of useless, irrelevant data.
Tom C.
From: Joseph Tainter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Zone Alarm (Now OT)
Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 11:47:46 -0700
P.S. Zone Alarm is apparently put out by CheckPoint, which is one of those
companies that collects and collates information on all of us. Isn't
CheckPoint the company that had records on several hundred thousand
consumers stolen a few months ago?
I have heard that the Pentagon (or maybe NSA) has a contract with
CheckPoint, which will complement the data on us that NSA has been getting
from the telephone companies. The government has been claiming that
individuals can't be identified from the phone company data. But if the
phone company data are married to the CheckPoint data, it is apparently a
different matter.
I'm not trying to start a battle here. I'm just a little shocked to see
that Zone Alarm is owned by CheckPoint, a company I had understood to be
the enemy.
I will see if Zone Alarm behaves itself. If not, I will uninstall it and go
back to the Windows firewall.
Joe
