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"It would be ideal if we could have an uncontrolled flow of information. But we realized you can't do that."
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"I would never jeopardize classified information to be brought out to the public. This information is all open source. There is no reason to worry about classification. It is simply an attempt by bureaucrats to cover their rear ends."
"Perfect truth (symmetry) is information that doesn't change and pure randomness is a difference that doesn't make a difference."
"Information networks straddle the world. Nothing remains concealed. But the sheer volume of information dissolves the information. We are unable to take it all in."
"I answered their questions truthfully and honestly, but I would prefer not to say more. I assume the information was routed back and that is why I was not called to testify."
"It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information."
"I think around the world, our agents are the best collectors of information you'll find."
"I have never refused to talk to any authorities or give them any information I had."
"How easy it is for so many of us today to be undoubtedly full of information yet fully deprived of accurate information."
"I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way."
"I discovered about 150 dots is the minimum number of dots to make a specific recognizable person. You can make something that looks like a head, with fewer dots, but you won't be able to give much information about who it is."
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"I think it is very difficult today to have a reasoned public discourse on any controversial subject. Certainly, election years present a complicating factor."
"I really believe that we don't have to make a trade-off between security and privacy. I think technology gives us the ability to have both."
"Uncontrolled access to data, with no audit trail of activity and no oversight would be going too far. This applies to both commercial and government use of data about people."
"I think if I had to do it over again, I'd do it the same way. I would just put more resources into getting the public diplomacy part much stronger than we were able to."
"You accept failure as a possible outcome of some of the experiments. If you don't get failures, you're not pushing hard enough on the objectives."
"Nobody - myself included - believes that we could ever achieve total information awareness. But the government needs to set goals and long-range objectives. Total information awareness is a good goal."
"The problem we were struggling with within the closed market was what the incentive would be. You probably wouldn't use dollars. But those are all questions that need to be explored."
"TIA was being used by real users, working on real data - foreign data. Data where privacy is not an issue."
"It would be ideal if we could have an uncontrolled flow of information. But we realized you can't do that."
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