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Am I the only person that is in favor of this?
I had an idea of a system after the attacks that involved a national ID card, after asking myself questions about how could this sort of thing have been prevented through domestic intelligence. A couple of days later I saw Oracle was proposing the same.
For one thing, a system like this might not be as naive as one might think. It can track a lot of things. Take a look at what the casinos do with those stupid little value cards or whatever they call them. A system like this could give the intelligence community the ways and means of tracking patterns of activity, and potentially flagging individuals as suspect.
I do not think that such a system would automatically thwart any attack imaginable, but it would at least give our intelligence officials the information available to look for a potential threat. Put the information there. Give them the responsibility of what to look for.
Instead of griping about Oracle trying to profit from the attacks by proposing a system like this, maybe we should really start thinking about what a system like this could really do.
I had an idea of a system after the attacks that involved a national ID card, after asking myself questions about how could this sort of thing have been prevented through domestic intelligence. A couple of days later I saw Oracle was proposing the same.
For one thing, a system like this might not be as naive as one might think. It can track a lot of things. Take a look at what the casinos do with those stupid little value cards or whatever they call them. A system like this could give the intelligence community the ways and means of tracking patterns of activity, and potentially flagging individuals as suspect.
I do not think that such a system would automatically thwart any attack imaginable, but it would at least give our intelligence officials the information available to look for a potential threat. Put the information there. Give them the responsibility of what to look for.
Instead of griping about Oracle trying to profit from the attacks by proposing a system like this, maybe we should really start thinking about what a system like this could really do.
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