GHA = Global Hypermedia Advisor (think a massive, apparently structured, database) NSC = National Security Council at the White House --- http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&threadm=MDCG.WAYNE.12352654309.BABYL%40MIT-OZ&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fq%3D%2BAs%2BI%2Brecall,%2Bthe%2BNSC%2Bwas%2Bdenied%2Blegal%2Baccess%2Bby%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26selm%3DMDCG.WAYNE.12352654309.BABYL%2540MIT-OZ%26rnum%3D1 From: Wayne McGuire (Wayneat_private) Subject: Filtering A Global Hypermedia Network Newsgroups: comp.society.futures Date: 1987-11-22 07:16:00 PST [...] Current online database vendors like Dialog and Mead Data Central are already foreshadowings (albeit extremely primitive) of a GHA. It is interesting to recall that under the reign of John Poindexter, of Irangate fame, the NSC was seeking to gain legal access to the records of these companies, which store sensitive information about the search targets and patterns of their users. As I recall, the NSC was denied legal access by Congress, but then there is always the problem of illegal access, which is relatively trivial to accomplish wholesale by intercepting telecommunications. [...] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/ Recent CNET News.com articles: http://news.search.com/search?q=declan -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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