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You accept failure as a possible outcome of some of the experiment

You accept failure as a possible outcome of some of the experiments. If you dont get failures, youre not pushing hard enough on the objectives. – John Poindexter

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I really believe that we dont have to make a trade-off between security and privacy. I think technology gives us the ability to have both. – John Poindexter

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I knew from the beginning that privacy was going to be a huge issue, especially with regard to applying Total Information Awareness in counterterrorism. Because if the technology development was successful, a logical place to apply it was inside the United States. – John Poindexter

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