On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 12:12:02PM -0800, Tim May wrote: > On Tuesday, December 31, 2002, at 11:32 AM, Michael Cardenas wrote: > >But what if this data is used as part of a larger picture, such as in > >TIA. It definitely can be used, along with gas purchases, to track > >where a suspect, aka a citizen, is living. Also, many possible > >weapons such as perscription drugs, box cutters, and kitchen knives > >can be purchased at a grocery store, which combined with case data > >could be useful in framing, aka finding, the suspect. > ... > > As for your point about prescription drugs, box cutters, kitchen knives > being trackable, I assume this is a troll or something you haven't > thought through. Treat it as a signal to noise problem, with millions > of such purchases every day. Again, I don't have time to describe this > in detail. Think about it. >
Isn't the whole purpose of TIA (or the claimed purpose) to be able to say person A bought weapon B on this day, bought C gallons of gas to drive to govt building D, and then blew up building D with weapon B, therefore person A must be the criminal? -- michael cardenas | lead software engineer, lindows.com hyperpoem.net | GNU/Linux software developer people.debian.org/~mbc | encrypted email preferred Listening to: Sonic Youth - Inhuman "Existence is a fullness which man can never abandon." - Jean-Paul Sartre [demime 0.97c removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]
