Over at Defense Tech they recently posted the DARPA budget for FY2006.
Lots of cool stuff- I'll be posting from it off and on this week.
I went over to DoD.mil and downloaded the .pdf file. Hell, if Carnivore doesn't have tabs on me by now, I'd feel unwanted.
Of course it'd be a lot cooler if the guys in charge of the D.o.D. weren't working with the philosophical guidance of the AEI these days and trying to, you know, take over the world.
Or at least its oil.
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There is No Such Application like Carnivore that looks through all your email searching for Chatter.
A program that would look at patterns of who is searching for certain kinds of information then posting it on a website would require cooperation on the deepest levels of the telecommunications infrastructure and that is just is too massive and too vast of a program to manage in today’s deregulated world. So don’t worry. You don't have anything to fear. Besides, even in the wildly unlikely possibility that something like that existed and worked they couldn't use it on you because you are a US citizen and have done nothing wrong.
Now that that comment is out of the way, I'd LOVE to see if you can spot any black box, skunk works or other weird things in the budget.
Post 'em if you find 'em.
I always wonder what kind of spooky stuff they are investigating that reads like a script for an Outer Limits episode.
I love those SF shows when super hard science is funded by the military. For example, Naive science guy thinks that vacuum energy could solve all our energy problems. Never considers the potential for it to be used a small super powerful non-nuclear weapon and is shocked when General Hasenpfeffer shows up and wants to know when he can have the prototype device. Meanwhile, beautiful, not as smart, but politically savvy science babe warns him, "Bob, we have to destroy this before he gets his hands on it!" Chase happens, device and notes are destroyed (along with several evil military chaser guys) world is safe.
It would be fun to turn the whole thing on its ear. Scientist knows it’s all bullshit. General comes and asks for “bomb”.
Scientist says, "General, you know this is just a scam to get money for research right?"
General says, "Yeah, but I gotta pretend I'm using you to make a super weapon, otherwise they would have never funded the project. No one else is really pushing the envelope in this field. Anyway, next week you and Mary will need to run around, have a lab accident and then I can report “We just missed having the ultimate bomb.” To my bosses, bosses. Then you can go back to work on this or one of our other scientific make work projects like the "Star Wars" Weapons. Man the shit we have to go through just to get money for basic research these day, right Bob? "
"You bet, General. I'll mess up the lab and do some "running" with Mary. Hey General, take care, best to the wife and kids, oh and don't forget to wreck a few old cars during the chase part of the deal so you can get new ones in this budget cycle. You know what a bitch it is to get them replaced when they are only a few years old."
and spits out flags for key phrases and
So let me get this straight.
You DON'T think TIA would continue to run a program like Carnivore. Basically, it's simply a google search for certain keywords, and an archival program to keep track of where the hits are coming from. And they did have something like it before 9/11.
But you DO think there's other black box weird things in that budget.
You'd be right on the second point, at least.
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