Thursday, December 19, 2002
THIS IS A FEW DAYS OLD but too good to pass up. John Poindexter (of Iran-Contra infamy), the new head of the government's creepy Total Information Awareness project has had his personal information splashed across the web by internet "pranksters."
I don't think this will deter the Homeland security types for which 1984 appears to be a desired dream rather than a call of warning.
The head of the government's Total Information Awareness project, which aims to root out potential terrorists by aggregating credit-card, travel, medical, school and other records of everyone in the United States, has himself become a target of personal data profiling.
Online pranksters, taking their lead from a San Francisco journalist, are publishing John Poindexter's home phone number, photos of his house and other personal information to protest the TIA program.
I don't think this will deter the Homeland security types for which 1984 appears to be a desired dream rather than a call of warning.
