Do you ever feel like you are being watched?

[HairyArsedBloke]

I enjoy the sentiment. The guys at DARPA have had this on their plans for years. In fact, most internet traffic is recorded in the states. They know that disk real estate is cheap, the processing power to mine the data is not / does not exist yet.

So, step 1, STORE EVERYTHING
step 2, FIGURE OUT WHAT TO DO WITH IT.

Step 1 is already in place.

HTH

Phase 3 - Profit

[Mich the Tester]

Phase 3 - Profit

Already happening mate. The British government has outsourced the call centres for passport applications in Europe to this lot; http://www.careline-services.co.uk/

As well as that, there are now SMS services in Holland which will give you the location of a mobile phone, the details of what was paid for a house, the price someone paid for his car.

There have been plenty of cases in history where people with nothing to hide had quite a lot to fear from their government.

[EternalOptimist]

Yep. Step 2 might be quite tricky. There's a lot of data there. I wonder how many disk arrays are taken up by the word 'viagra'.

did you know that if you cut and pasted all the stuff in your brain, it would more than fill every disk in the world ?

I just made that up to see who will swallow it. bored

[Mich the Tester]

did you know that if you cut and pasted all the stuff in your brain, it would more than fill every disk in the world ?

I just made that up to see who will swallow it. bored

erm, perhaps not my brain

[Pondlife]

did you know that if you cut and pasted all the stuff in your brain, it would more than fill every disk in the world ?

I just made that up to see who will swallow it. bored

Dim Prawn keeps a backup on a floppy disk.

I see what you did there

[Andy2]

Dim Prawn keeps a backup on a floppy disk.

I see what you did there

Atleast he can bootup faster. Takes me ages.