When Washington Mimics Sci Fi

When Washington Mimics Sci Fi
George Smith, 2002-11-25

John Poindexter's evil design for an all-seeing God Machine seems torn from the pages of visionary science fiction, where such schemes rarely end well.

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Sci Fi is too melodramatic 2002-11-28
bl0rf

Mr.Smith,
I disagree with your comparison of Poindexter's plan to
sci-fi, it distracts the people from the more realistic
dangers of this plan.
As history has shown us many times the amazing thing called
human nature will always prevail. I am more afraid of a
programmer who, tempted, will wr...

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When Smith ignores reality 2002-11-29
HC (2 replies)

Mr. Smith,

Given your position in the media, I am not sure with whom I should be more disappointed...you, or SecurityFocus for foisting your diatribes on it's readers.

This massive database you're so paranoid about is neither "owned" nor "designed" by John Poindexter. Anyone who has had any e...

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When Smith ignores reality 2002-11-30
Anonymous

And you know these things exactly how?

There is no way for you to know what John Poindexter does or does not know unless you have communicated with him directly yourself. Unless you work in DARPA (and even then), I doubt you have ever had any contact whatsoever with Mr. Poindexter.

Given that...

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What is reality anyway? 2002-12-03
Anonymous

It was said:
I have yet to read a single article that
then states that he was acquitted on appeal in '90. How convenient that other authors forget the "facts"...particularly
those that do not directly support their arguement.

Facts Shmacts..you should get some stra...

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