“As you read this article, I urge you to visit the Web site I
discuss and actually test it. If you don’t, then you’re doing
yourself and you community a disservice. Sitting right under our
noses, open-source software is providing a solution right now to
one of the major recommendations sited in the 9-11 Commission
Report of July 22, 2004: ‘unifying the many participants in the
counter terrorism effort and their knowledge in a network-based
information sharing system that transcends traditional government
boundaries.’“The many participants in the counterterrorism effort include
state and local law enforcement agencies, in addition to the FBI
and CIA. In fact, the reorganization of the agencies that make up
the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was intended to increase
information sharing. DHS has screamed for information sharing for
three years…”
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