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Act On Total Information Awareness

Posted by timothy on from the know-everything dept.

pberry writes "The EFF Action Center has two new alerts (1, 2) on stopping "Total Information Awareness." TIA is a collection of DARPA-funded initiatives that are very scary. The project is headed by Admiral John Poindexter and has no implementation guidelines thus far. In other words, it is misguided to say that these tools will be used in any particular way, but it is clear that if they do what they say they will, America could be a very scary place to live."

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  1. Without free money for weapons, no Al Qaeda. by Futurepower(R) · · Score: 5, Informative


    Many people think that Osama bin Laden could not possibly have found support from other Arabs without the anger that comes from the U.S. government supporting the killing of Arabs in Palestine. If you are a U.S. citizen, you should know that you contribute over $900 of your money for every man, woman and child in Israel for the purpose of buying U.S. weapons from U.S. weapons manufacturers, so that they can make more profit. You contribute that amount every year. This policy is bad for Jews, it is bad the Arabs, and it is bad for U.S. citizens. Giving money for weapons to a country involved in a conflict is like throwing gasoline on a fire. There are always people who want to kill others and destroy property; for them it is like an adult video game.

    See my article about this: What should be the Response to Violence? The article needs updating, but there are many links to important, well-respected news sources.

    If you don't begin taking action now, the hidden forces inside the U.S. government will take over completely.

  2. Gimme an Eee!! Gimme an En!! Gimme a See!! by QuietRiot · · Score: 4, Informative
    Encrypt your emails people. Encourage your friends to do the same. Help them get the plugins setup, get keys made, and get them a copy of your public key. Put public keys on an keyserver.

    Keep your data out of the databases. Use cash, ask marketers to remove your name from their lists. Use cash. Use cash. Use cash.

    If you've got a "shoppers club" card with your name attached to it. Give it up. Cut it up. Get another one - without your real name and address.

    Encrypt your IM traffic with others that are capable. Put SSL on your web server.

    Adopt IPv6. Setup IPsec on IPv4/v6 connections. Use SSH (duh!). Get an anonymizer.com account. $30 bones for a year. You can get a 6-month free trial if you sign up as a member of the EFF. $25 bones. You get a sticker. Spend a little more and you get a hat or a T-shirt. Do it.

    If you've got flash, watch this.

    No need to contribute "useful" data to the databases, right?