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Hola Tod@s,<br>
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The relationship between war driven technologies and borderization
is a long one and I thought this article allows to to consider this<br>
history. One aspect that I find particularly odd, but I am sure is
at play even now-is the "people-sniffer" system to pick up the scent<br>
of the "enemies" sweat and urine. That was then spoofed by the North
Vietnamese via buckets of urine to redirect U.S. Arm Forces. A <br>
tradition that still continues on the Mexico/U.S. border now in
terms of what might be named as "science of the oppressed.":<br>
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<p class="first-text">"From 1968 until 1973, the US military spent
about $1 billion a year on a new computer-powered initiative
intended to end the war in Vietnam. It went by many names over the
years — including Practice Nine, Muscle Shoals, Illinois City and
Dye Marker. But today it’s most commonly known as Operation Igloo
White.</p>
<p>Despite being a high-priced technological failure for the US
military, Igloo White was the first real-time, computer-driven
surveillance operation program, set up during the Vietnam War.<br>
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The US military sought to build a virtual fence dividing North and
South Vietnam. And in the process they helped to invent the modern
electronic battlefield, whose technologies came back to the US in
the early 1970s, where they were quickly deployed against drug
cartels, smugglers, and anyone else trying to cross the border
from Mexico. Igloo White also formed the bedrock of a border
surveillance revolution that’s ongoing today. At the US-Mexico
border, drones stalk the skies and <a
href="http://gizmodo.com/americas-already-building-a-wall-on-the-mexican-border-1728007994"
target="_blank">electronic sensors</a> alert Border Patrol
agents to anyone trying to cross into the United States."<br>
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<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/how-the-vietnam-war-brought-high-tech-border-surveillan-1694647526">http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/how-the-vietnam-war-brought-high-tech-border-surveillan-1694647526</a><br>
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