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. — John Poindexter Copy Share Image
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. — John Poindexter Copy Share Image
TIA was being used by real users, working on real data - foreign data. Data where privacy is not an issue. — John Poindexter Copy Share Image
I knew from the beginning that privacy was going to be a huge issue, especially with regard to applying Total Information Awareness in counterterrorism.… — John Poindexter Copy Share Image
I think it is very difficult today to have a reasoned public discourse on any controversial subject. Certainly, election years present a complicating factor. — John Poindexter Copy Share Image
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… — John Poindexter Copy Share Image
We wanted to be as expansive as possible to make sure we didn't preclude some good ideas. — John Poindexter Copy Share Image
It would be ideal if we could have an uncontrolled flow of information. But we realized you can't do that. — John Poindexter Copy Share Image
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… — John Poindexter Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I continue to speak out is that the solutions to the counterterrorism problem involve other parts of the national security… — John Poindexter Copy Share Image
Nobody - myself included - believes that we could ever achieve total information awareness. But the government needs to set goals and long-range objectives.… — John Poindexter Copy Share Image
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… — John Poindexter Copy Share Image
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… — John Poindexter Copy Share Image
Uncontrolled access to data, with no audit trail of activity and no oversight would be going too far. This applies to both commercial and… — John Poindexter Copy Share Image
