Border Security: Different Names, Same Problems.

Publication: eWeek

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The name for the federal electronic surveillance program designed to protect the nation's borders keeps changing as the cost of the technology rises, but some of the same problems haunt the program from name to name.

The Department of Homeland Security's recently launched SBI (Secure Border Initiative) replaces the ASI (America's Shield Initiative), which in 2004 replaced the ISIS (Integrated Surveillance Intelligence System) that...

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