For at least two years, the U.S. has been conducting a secretive and immensely sophisticated campaign of mass surveillance and data mining against the Arab world, allowing the intelligence community to monitor the habits, conversations, and activity of millions of individuals at once. And with an upgrade scheduled for later this year, the top contender to win the federal contract and thus take over the program is a team of about a dozen companies which were brought together in large part by Aaron Barr - the same disgraced CEO who resigned from his own firm earlier this year after he was discovered to have planned a full-scale information war against political activists at the behest of corporate clients. It is inevitable, then, that such capabilities as form the backbone of Romas/COIN and its replacement Odyssey will be deployed against a growing segment of the world s population. The powerful institutions that wield them will grow all the more powerful as they are provided better and better methods by which to monitor, deceive, and manipulate. The informed electorate upon which liberty depends will be increasingly misinformed. No tactical advantage conferred by the use of these programs can outweigh the damage that will be done to mankind in the process of creating them.
http://www.theoneclickgroup.co.uk/news.php?id=6369#newspost
Barrett Brown, Project PM
Related Links:
* Project PM Leaks Dirt on Romas/COIN Classified Intelligence Mass Surveillance
http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/project-pm-leaks-dirt-romascoin-classified-in
Ms. Smith, NetworkWorld
http://www.mindcontrol-blog.com:8091/helma/twoday/mindcontrol/search?q=intelligence
http://www.mindcontrol-blog.com:8091/helma/twoday/mindcontrol/search?q=surveillance
http://www.mindcontrol-blog.com:8091/helma/twoday/mindcontrol/search?q=data+mining
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