Defense Department 'eDNA' Plan Withdrawn

Posted by timothy on Saturday November 23, 2002 @03:43PM from the but-they're-still-thinking-of-you dept.

An anonymous reader points out this report on News.com from Declan McCullagh of a far-reaching plan (now withdrawn) to curtail much online privacy through the use of biometric markers, excerpting "The idea involved creating secure areas of the Internet that could be accessed only if a user had such a marker, called eDNA, according to a report in Friday's New York Times." Perhaps they'll withdraw the plan to track everything you buy next. Update: 11/24 17:38 GMT by T : Here is the original New York Times report from John Markoff.

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Terminology Abuse by vga_init · 2002-11-23 16:02 · Score: 1, Offtopic

e-wha!? DNA stands for "DeoxyriboNucleic Acid" Last time I checked, computers don't have these, and they never will. Also, if this so-called "eDNA" is supposed to be analogous to the real thing, I can't see how as DNA isn't used for anything remotely close to what they are suggesting as eDNA. It's just more buzzword BS. :(