[privacy] cc: Re: AP: Feds Rate Travelers for Terrorism

[Drsolly]

I'm neither Repulican nor American. I will own up to being a moron, 
though.

On Sat, 2 Dec 2006 SDALAN04 at smumn.edu wrote:

> This is definitely a moronic, republican, Americanistic, right-winged,
> and blinding example of the type of minds that rule our existing
> government.
> 
> 
> 
> On Saturday, December 02, 2006 11:42 AM, Brian Loe wrote:
> >
> >Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2006 11:42:41 -0600
> >From: Brian Loe
> >To: Drsolly <drsollyp at drsolly.com>
> >Subject: Re: [privacy] AP: Feds Rate Travelers for Terrorism
> >
> >On 12/2/06, Drsolly <drsollyp at drsolly.com> wrote:
> >
> >> > I didn't read anything about fully automated systems that *do*
> >> > anything. Its not as if it scores you and then directs a gun to shoot
> >> > you based on that score. Much like my spam filter - it moves the
> >> > suspected message to a folder called "spam" and then I go in and
> >> > delete it, after I've verified it to be so.
> >>
> >> Hmm, so you're profiling your email.
> >>
> >
> >
> >Aren't you?! I don't have a problem with profiling of any kind, not
> >only because I am the least effected by such work but because
> >profiling enables those in charge of finding the bad guys to narrow
> >and better focus their attentions. It can not be relied on completely,
> >and broader measures must be taken, but it will find the bad guys more
> >quickly than, say, strip searching the 90 year old, medal of honor
> >winner...don't ya think?
> >
> >You are/were an anti-virus programmer right? Did you just delete
> >suspected files or did you quarantine them? Was that quarantine based
> >on "profiling" (signatures)? I don't want a system that shoots people
> >or deletes files and messages, but I do want it to identify those
> >which are suspected of needing to be shot or deleted.
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