Is zeitgeist safe?

[Chris Bannister]

On Wed, May 07, 2014 at 04:50:39PM -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote:
> On Wed, May 07, 2014 at 11:27:14PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> 
> > It's a confidence game, they don't have got the power they claim to
> > have. I guess it's just promotion.
>
> Maybe, maybe not. You might be surprised at what can be put together
> from seemingly random pieces of information.

Look at the balls up catching the Boston bomber! Yep, it was just your
average Joe Bloggs who found him in his boat *AFTER* the curfew was
lifted.

It seems to me that the curfew was in place to lessen civilian
casualties inflicted by gung-ho police/military people, rather than to
make it easier to apprehend him.

IOW, the powers that be might be amassing all this information but
whether it can be any use, depends on the weakest link.

-- 
"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people
who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the 
oppressing." --- Malcolm X