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I seem to remember reading a book back
in the 70s which touched on the rationale behind terrorism.
According to the author, the activity of terrorism is not aimed at
military victory, nor is it aimed at terrorising a populace into
submission.
Terrorist acts are aimed at precipitating a draconian
over-reaction, restriction of freedom, and abuse of civil
liberties by the authorities in the target state in order to
"protect the people" so that ultimately the authorities lose the
confidence of the people they govern.
So, given that rationale, are the terrorists winning or not?
Phil
On 08/12/13 14:27, Daniel Robinson wrote:
Kinda makes you wish we went for the id card.. Cctv,
freedomless internet, shockingly bad tv, worsoning education,
higher tax's no democracy!!!
i'd kindly take the id card if we can get the above back!
On Dec 7, 2013 4:42 PM, "Henry Bremridge"
< henry.bremridge@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On Sat, Dec 07, 2013 at 03:30:12PM +0000, Philip Hudson wrote:
> Just look at the list of personally identified data.
> http://seattleducation2010.wordpress.com/2013/12/03/testimony-regarding-race-to-the-top-funds-for-seattle/
>
>
And similar arguments will apply in most developed countries.
And the more
you post on facebook, Tesco Club Card, Nectar and the such
like the more
you can be identified.
eg
http://www.businesscomputingworld.co.uk/revealed-secret-piis-in-your-unstructured-data/
Carnegie Mellon computer science professor and data
privacy expert
Latanya Sweeney ran the numbers back in 2000: using then
current census
data (broken down by zip codes and age groups) she was
able to identify
87% of the people in the US using just those three
non-PIIs.
Piecing the information together is even easier in the UK,
as a post
code will often cover little more than a single street.
http://godplaysdice.blogspot.co.uk/2009/12/uniquely-identifying-people-by-birth.html
http://www.forbes.com/sites/adamtanner/2013/07/22/how-just-a-zip-code-can-tell-a-marketer-exactly-who-you-are/
Marketers use the same techniques to gather information
about potential
and actual clients. From a few pieces of the puzzle, such
as a name and
a ZIP code, data brokers and companies can find an
address, the phone
number and other personal data. It’s a simple matter of
statistical
probability to find the information.
http://www.afd.co.uk/manuals/postcodeplus/CensTab.asp
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