On Dec 30, 2009, at 2:24 PM, richardsan wrote: > > oh, my thinking was that we[the US] largely kontrols who > enters ...; ^)
We control who enters the country. On foot, thorough customs at Detroit International Airport. We don't control Dutch airlines at Dutch airports. > shouldn't we be more vigilant about all the prescient data not being > combined, more than ever since 9/11? <headdesk> Gee yes. Ain't NOBODY thought of this at all! <rolls eyes> So far we know that they guys father contacted the State Department about his son being radicalized. Maybe the father was interviewed by the CIA. Maybe the CIA wonrgly decided he wasn't a threat. Maybe the data wasn't there. Along with hundreds of thousands of others, the vast majority of which are wrong, harmless or someone ratting out a rival. If you have the magical algorithm that finds the magic bad guy in a sea of data, you can make a hella lot of money. The 9/11 plot required a lot of people on four continents, years of planning, logistics, training, money. This plot requires a handful of guys, some detcord and money to buy a ticket. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "StrataList-OT" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/stratalist-ot?hl=en.
