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Saturday, February 25, 2006

A direct challenge - Freedom of Information vs. National Security

In a direct challenge to National Security, Google and the National Archives are teaming up to strike a blow for Freedom of Information. Acting together, the two organizations have conspired to make information available for free online!

The only question I have - Will this speed up or slow down the "reclassification" process? We must act now to stop this reckless dissemination of information.

What will people do with this information? One can only imagine the damage that an 1894 video of "Carmencita" could do to our national security.

Peace!

From:
Google Press Center: Press Release

National Archives and Google Launch Pilot Project to Digitize and Offer Historic Films Online

Washington, D.C. and Mountain View, Calif. – Feb. 24, 2006 – Archivist of the United States Allen Weinstein and Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Co-Founder and President of Technology Sergey Brin today announced the launch of a pilot program to make holdings of the National Archives available for free online.

Moonlighting in Gay Porn - Hobby or survival necessity?

7 Paratroopers Charged in Gay Porn - Los Angeles Times

"The Army has charged seven paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division with engaging in sex acts in videos shown on a gay pornography website."

I don't even know where to go with this. Were they bored? Don't we pay them enough? Were they stupid enough to think they wouldn't get caught?

Help me comprehend what could possibly have induced them to do this?

Friday, February 24, 2006

Homeland Security gets biggest chunk of new federal IT dollars

See the article here

The question is - Do you think it will help?

From years of exerience working with businesses to streamline and improve thier processes, I can tell you that by far the most common and costly mistake is to throw software and computers at the problem.

If you don't have good processes, procedures, policys, documentation, and people, you'll only do two things by adding technology:
  1. Add something else to the mix that can screw it all up.
  2. Give yourself the ability to make bad decisions faster.
Maybe Homeland Security needs that much of an IT budget, but I suspect they are trying to solve thier highly publicized problems with the wrong tool.

Peace.