Gore Warns That Intrusive Technology Makes Us Less Secure

from the well,-duh dept

While it's clearly a political speech, Al Gore is lashing out against increasingly intrusive technology being pushed by the government as a way to make us more secure. He points out that all of the information necessary to identify the September 11th hijackers was available, but what was lacking was a system to put all that info together and pick out the pieces. Gore points out that by simply collecting more information we could actually be making ourselves less secure, since it makes it more difficult to find the relevant information. I really tried to make it through this post without bringing up the obvious reference, but I just can't resist: maybe we need Gore to go out and invent a better system for pulling the data needles out of the data haystack - though, of course, then he'll just be accused of creating the next version of the Total Information Awareness program.
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  1. identicon
    anon, 14 Oct 2003 @ 1:59pm

    No Subject Given

    I'd like to point out that the notion that Gore said he invented the Internet is complete fucking lie.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  2. identicon
    Three Men In A Boat, 14 Oct 2003 @ 2:01pm

    No Subject Given

    ... maybe we need Gore to go out and invent a better system ...

    You crack me up, man... that's a GOOD one! Really creative! A total knee-slapper! For sure!

    The Boring Old Truth

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    Mike (profile), 14 Oct 2003 @ 2:18pm

    Re: No Subject Given

    It was a joke... Calm down people. Sure, maybe it wasn't funny, but it was a joke.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  4. identicon
    anon, 14 Oct 2003 @ 4:32pm

    Re: No Subject Given

    sorry..just a little touchy given the "internet" lie and other lies helped get us the intellectual midget who currently is (p)resident of the US.

    link to this | view in thread ]

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    jeff a, 14 Oct 2003 @ 5:49pm

    Re: No Subject Given

    Maybe Gore wasn't Mr. Dynamic and maybe Clinton did screw Lewinsky but they did not screw the economy and the average wage earner. Tax cuts for the rich, major deficit, $87 billion... What a f****ng mess.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  6. identicon
    LittleW0lf, 14 Oct 2003 @ 6:14pm

    Politics != Techdirt

    Mike, note to self...No more political humor on Techdirt as there are some that cannot take a political joke.

    I actually did get a laugh out of it when you posted it, but I am amazed at the backlash.

    Whether or not it is a lie is still up for grabs (though of course he didn't say it, so that part is a lie, but when have you known Journalists to be truthful in their reporting of quotes,) Vint Cerf (the true "Father of the Internet") does point out that if it wasn't for Gore's funding, the internet as we know it wouldn't exist, so in a way, he did invent the internet, or at least he provided our taxpayer money to the folks that invented the internet...

    link to this | view in thread ]

  7. identicon
    Anonymous Coward, 14 Oct 2003 @ 6:22pm

    Re: No Subject Given

    Aren't we up on current events, fucking idiot.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  8. identicon
    nil-ram, 14 Oct 2003 @ 9:34pm

    Information Stuporhighway

    "Information Superhighway" is just an anagram for "I'm on a huge whispy rhino fart".

    link to this | view in thread ]

  9. identicon
    Anonymous Coward, 14 Oct 2003 @ 11:32pm

    Re: Information Stuporhighway

    Are you really?

    link to this | view in thread ]

  10. identicon
    anon, 15 Oct 2003 @ 2:09pm

    Re: Politics != Techdirt

    Tell these people's http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2003/iraq/forces/casualties/ families how funny it is. A Gore Administration almost certainly wouldn't have invaded Iraq.

    And BTW it IS A LIE. There's no two ways about it.

    link to this | view in thread ]


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