Friday, January 22, 2010

no "Google-Like" Search For U.S. Counterterror Agencies

Google data center, St. Ghislain, Belgium: Inside each
containerized module = servers + storage + network+


U.S. Counterterror Agency Lacks "Google-Like" Search -- Yahoo News/Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A senior counterterrorism official said on Wednesday his agency lacks "Google-like" search capability that could have identified the suspect in the attempted Christmas Day airline bombing.

The National Counterterrorism Center, the agency charged with reviewing disparate data to protect against attacks, does not have a computer search engine that could have checked for various spellings of the alleged bomber's name and his birthplace in Nigeria, the center's chief told a Senate hearing on security reform.

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My Comment: The next question should have been .... when will these search capabilities be installed? Since there was no follow up, I cannot help but suspect that such a basic search option will not be added in the near future.

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