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Thursday, December 06, 2007

 

The Pentagon's Chatter Box

This article spoke about the developement of a decoding machine that could not only decode english, but decode foreign languages and codes, translating them into english.
"experts describe the project as the most ambitious undertaking in the history of human language technology"
.The National Security Agency gathers information all the time, but with this new technology they will be able to use that information by getting it analyzed and then to help stop terrorism."
"The ultimate goal of the endeavor, dubbed GALE for Global Autonomous Language Exploitation, is to turn the staggeringly large volumes of recorded foreign language broadcasts, phone conversations, and Internet traffic into something national security analysts, spooks, and soldiers can actually use."
Yes it is true that this can help our country and make it easier to stop attacks before they happen, but will this developement backfire. Some people like Gilman Louie, the president and CEO of In-Q-Tel, the Central Intelligence Agency’s venture capital arm, feel that putting this type f technology in the governments hand is a huge problem. Not only does this article show how the world is advancing everyday, but it shows how even when it come fighting in the battlefield, there is always a use for advance technology.

Comments:
A good post.

Innovation driven by anxiety about terrorism. New developments like these cope with the ocean of data that intelligence agencies have to monitor.

What are the negative aspects of this kind of software? What are the positive? Powerful surveillance tools can be comforting or a bit scary depending on how serious you feel the threat is to our safety.
 
A good post.

Innovation driven by anxiety about terrorism. New developments like these cope with the ocean of data that intelligence agencies have to monitor.

What are the negative aspects of this kind of software? What are the positive? Powerful surveillance tools can be comforting or a bit scary depending on how serious you feel the threat is to our safety.
 
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