What? 170m and it doesn't work? Better call Best Buy

[Axxon]

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/01/13/fbi...are/index.html

Somehow this bugs me more than a lot of more "serious" issues in the news. That's a lot of money to throw away because "The rapidly changing state of technology was insufficiently understood, and an entire system was developed to replace the antiquated FBI computer and record management systems."

Uhm, if you're throwing 170m of OUR money after a problem at least understand the issue before you cut the check.

Oh well, if we're lucky only 130m will have been wasted. Much better I guess.

[sterlingice]

Well, even better (and why privacy advocates are jumping all over this) is because (from an Lawrence Journal World story): "This week, the FBI acknowledged it was keeping permanent records of people who flew on commercial airlines in the months before 9-11... Information about the travel files came to light through a Freedom of Information Act request by the Electronic Privacy Information Center. For the millions of travelers who took airline flights in the months between June and September 2001, the FBI has information about the flight, its passengers and possibly where they stayed, whom they traveled with, what credit card they used and even whether they ordered a kosher meal... As part of its investigation into the terrorist attacks, the FBI asked for, and got, the records from a number of airlines shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks. The FBI also got one set of data through a federal grand jury subpoena."

Now, I don't know about you, but I think that's just kindof wrong.

SI

[Flasch186]

Originally Posted by sterlingice

Well, even better (and why privacy advocates are jumping all over this) is because (from an Lawrence Journal World story): "This week, the FBI acknowledged it was keeping permanent records of people who flew on commercial airlines in the months before 9-11... Information about the travel files came to light through a Freedom of Information Act request by the Electronic Privacy Information Center. For the millions of travelers who took airline flights in the months between June and September 2001, the FBI has information about the flight, its passengers and possibly where they stayed, whom they traveled with, what credit card they used and even whether they ordered a kosher meal... As part of its investigation into the terrorist attacks, the FBI asked for, and got, the records from a number of airlines shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks. The FBI also got one set of data through a federal grand jury subpoena."

Now, I don't know about you, but I think that's just kindof wrong.

SI

welp, that puts me on the list, [start deleting porn now]