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This is either extremely bad news (on several levels -- because it has cast too wide of a net which wastes resources or if it is true, we are in deep shit since the community is way past critical mass) or pure incompetence (in that we don't have a clue):

The National Counterterrorism Center maintains a central repository of 325,000 names of international terrorism suspects or people who allegedly aid them, a number that has more than quadrupled since the fall of 2003, according to counterterrorism officials.

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[phil jones]

Cringely's final point interesting here :

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20060202.html