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Social Networking Limits
by Andrew McCaskey
Setting up a Facebook/YouTube clone for various intelligence agencies sounds like a good idea. The public enthusiasm is a reward for agencies working to 1) Get over the same sorts of behavior that allowed the attacks of 9/11 to occur 2) Avoid criticism on aged equipment and procedures like their counterparts at the FAA with the Air Traffic Control System and 3) capitalize on the current trend and buzz associated with social media in all forms.
It all sounds like a wonderful PR spin to me. As much as we would all like for it to be true, there have got to be some incredible issues on “how does that happen really ?”
Large organizations with various databases and systems are notarious in their difficulty in merging information and systems. Thousands of SAP specialists roam the globe performing those very tasks on legacy systems of all forms.
I have to admit to a very large degree of skeptical prejudice when there is any talk of smoothly implementing such a fusion in any large institution. And I can think of no larger, partitioned and cumbersome aggregation of multiple technologies and agendas that the one that this technolgy supposedly solves.
It was a great demo for CNN. Now, lets see some assurance that there really is a roll-out.
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