Thanks for posting this information, Waterman. It helps clarify AI re NSA, DHS, EDS (HP?). The invasive data mining for 'security' and/or marketing is actually kind of sickening for me. As one commenter said in response to the article you posted, "I find it very difficult to believe that Dick Cheney would be part of anything that was not in our best interest."
I think he was referring to this:
"If Main Core does exist, says Philip Giraldi, a former CIA counterterrorism officer and an outspoken critic of the agency, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is its likely home. If a master list is being compiled, it would have to be in a place where there are no legal issues"—the CIA and FBI would be restricted by oversight and accountability laws—"so I suspect it is at DHS, which as far as I know operates with no such restraints." Giraldi notes that DHS already maintains a central list of suspected terrorists and has been freely adding people who pose no reasonable threat to domestic security. "It's clear that DHS has the mandate for controlling and owning master lists. The process is not transparent, and the criteria for getting on the list are not clear."
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I ran into some weird technical difficulties (again) today, and learned of a company called
Innovagest 2000, trustedantivirussolution.com, whose persistent reminders to download virus protection software via Microsoft alerts, then Google alerts, just eventually froze the computer - phishing and notepad files status: read - and now it's toast. I'm not sure why Microsoft farms out virus protection downloads, but Innovagest's
Terms & Conditions reads like a very strange tale (Playboy?? Netherlands?? Spain???).
From a guy's blog:
"You are expecting to read an article on Innovagest rogue spyware, right? Well, here’s a heads up for you: Innovagest – aka Innovagest 2000 and Innovagest 2000 S.L. – isn’t a rogue spyware. It’s even worse. It’s a rogue spyware developer company. We can hit a bunch of nasty programs all in one shot here: SpyDeface, XP Antivirus 2008 (Unregistered Version), ContraVirus 2007, and PestTrap. Any of those sound familiar? They are all ‘anti-spyware’ programs released by Innovagest."
http://www.spyzooka.com/blog/innovagest/
With what you say, the profiling capabilities are ubermassive. I hadn't heard about voice signatures yet. UGHHHHH Oh well. You gotta admit, it's one comprehensive package. Who's looking after DHS now? NSA? I've been following CIA, and a bit of FBI.
PEACE