The 9/11 commission's final report paints a picture of 15 different US intelligence services using 15 different databases, with none of them able to interact with one another.
It is what could be described as a "dumb" network. It is based on a decades-old model in which information can be shared only within each organisation.
The answer, insist an assortment of U.S.government-mandated ninnies,
lies in even more and more distributed distributed databases, more and
more new software and hardware, more and more and more computer technology for information sifting.
Sceptics, though, have heard it all before and question of the wisdom of focusing on technology alone.
"Technology isn't an answer for any of this," said George Smith, senior fellow at the security think-tank, GlobalSecurity.org.
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