[halJordan]

This is a good article. I disagree with its implications. I would agree that the average us citizen is much too far removed from the defense industrial complex and that creates these situations where a Google engineer (not necessarily this guy) is perfectly willing to help destroy American society with his advertising tech but balks at automating image tagging for the dod's big data lake because would rather have another 9/11 than be responsible for a false positive in the ME.

[wat10000]

How is cell phone tracking going to prevent another 9/11? And looking at the historical track record, the DoD has done a lot of killing and very little 9/11 prevention in the past 24 years.

[boredatoms]

Do they have a public log of preventions we can look at? Seems fascinating to look at the numbers

[shigawire]

The heuristic is that it would be in their interest to trumpet their successes.

[wat10000]

The heuristic is that DoD doesn’t do counterterrorism. I don’t expect DoD to prevent terror attacks just like I don’t expect the FBI to blow up bunkers in Iran. We don’t need numbers to be able to confidently estimate that the number of Iranian bunkers blown up by the FBI is approximately zero.

[conception]

Not if revealing success also reveals methodology and “trade” secrets.

[michaelmrose]

Its perfectly reasonable to suppose undisclosed successes are imaginary as that is the overwhelming likelihood

[colordrops]

What could these secrets be other than a completely illegal comprehensive web of domestic spy apparatus.

[Pixelbrick]

Isn't that what parallel construction is for?

[conception]

“We have a mole in X network that gave us details about the attack.” Would be the most obvious.

[throwaway-11-1]

hey man what country were the 9/11 hijackers from? What counties did we invade and which did we give f-35’s to?