Interestingly, Trump himself never directly floated the idea of a Muslim registry until it was suggested to him by a reporter.pic.twitter.com/qwu7kUmrWO
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Interestingly, Trump himself never directly floated the idea of a Muslim registry until it was suggested to him by a reporter.pic.twitter.com/qwu7kUmrWO
These quotes indicate that he was, at least a month ago, unaware of the several systems we currently have that do this: US-VISIT, CCD, etc.
His initial comments were for a database for tracking Syrian refugees, but this has existed for a while:http://www.wrapsnet.org/#intro
If I'm being completely honest, the more I research this, the less I'm afraid of a tracking system, and more I'm seeing a huge waste of
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In order to accomplish what he wants re: Muslim immigration, I've identified at least seven systems that would need to be integrated.
This is a contract for Booz-Allen-Hamilton for performing some updates to the SEVIS system. 5 year, $7 million.pic.twitter.com/607RR3ozka
5 year, $7 million is actually nothing at all in terms of money. But this is to integrate one system. The combinatorics work against us.
The Scope of Work for that contract. This is a small fraction of the work effort required to actualize a tracking system. Have more acronymspic.twitter.com/nhCHbgp4ya
Putting this thread on hold to spend some time with my grandmother-in-law. Going to write all this up when I get back.
Probably not microservice. If Trump has heard the term, probably thinks it is a short housekeeper.
Or just shows someone who doesn't know wtf he's talking about with regard to any tech not built out of mafia concrete.
Mark of the beast!! I'm home for Xmas w/ my Christian crazy end times zealot family
Both can be highly problematic if left unchecked.
Or, someone just rambling on about something they don't know anything about.
Trump has probably seen a Powerpoint slide of a systems overview, with lots of 'system' boxes and separate database symbols.
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