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A civics lesson from General Hayden

I've been watching and listening to General Michael Hayden, the former National Security Agency chief now nominated by President Bush to lead the Central Intelligence Agency. You can find reports about the content of his comments here, here and here. Let's focus here on the lack of...

Tags: Michael Hayden, NSA

Blog posts 2006-05-18

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A quick tour of marketing magic

A client of CNET’s recently asked me to do a presentation on “important events in marketing,” and I got to thinking about it in the pool this morning. Good marketing sings; it resonates with something that’s already in the recipient’s mind. And that’s why I love it: A...

Tags: advertisement, Federal Express, marketing

Blog posts 2006-09-12

NSA datamining - what is it good for?

Data mining - what is it good for? Without or clue or lead of some kind, absolutely nothing. That's pretty much what datamining experts told Washington Post reporter Guy Gugliotta. Details of the NSA's activities remain unclear, but data mining experts say they are puzzled about how the...

Tags: data mining, NSA

Blog posts 2006-06-19

TYS: Surveillanceworld

TYS = "Told You So." And this is not something I was looking forward to being right about, but the Bush Administration seems intent on driving toward a complete Orwellian world. According to CNET sister publication of ZD Net, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and FBI Director Robert Mueller met with...

Tags: SurveillanceWorld, ZD Net

Blog posts 2006-06-02

Serious scaling for open source databases

One of the biggest problems for those who want open source databasing is scaling. And now it may be solved. Once you start storing terabytes, and want to do deep business intelligence analysis on that data, a simple mySQL installation on a Dell...

Tags: PostgreSQL, GreenPlum

Blog posts 2006-05-24

NSA Eavesdropping: Deep inefficiency

President Bush likes to argue for the NSA's warrant-less eavesdropping by saying "If you're calling al Qaeda, we want to know why." It was a key argument during the State of the Union address. But now NSA sources are admitting that the program is yielding few or no terrorist...

Tags: warrant-less, NSA

Blog posts 2006-02-05

Bush allies defend NSA surveillance

Bush allies defend NSA surveillanceIf it is so obvious that they are only intercepting terrorist communicationcommunications, it would take very little time to convince a Judge and get a court order. We need a judge to ok these kinds of things. I do NOT trust Bush and his buddies.Well, this...

Tags: Osama, NSA, FISA Court, 9/11 commission

Discussion threads 2006-01-24

Eavesdropping: A little dab'll Dubya

General Michael Hayden, former director of the National Security Agency who was in charge when President Bush first authorized wire taps of U.S. telecommunications that might involve terrorists and currently the second-in-command for U.S. intelligence operations said today, according to the Financial Times: “The trigger is quicker and a...

Tags: 9/11 commission, 9/11, General, intrusion, General Hayden

Blog posts 2006-01-23