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Keeping An Eye On Total Information Awareness
mesozoic writes "Wired is running a story about hackers publishing John Poindexter's personal information (like satellite photos of his home) to protest the proposed Total Information Awareness system. This is just too funny, and it may even raise a few more eyebrows among the national media."
TIA only serves to demonstrate the supreme arrogance of the US govt - quick! search the big database for "white van"
That was classic intercourse!
Poindexter could not be reached for comment for this story, and calls to his home phone now reach a recording: "The party you are calling is not available at this time."
:(
boo hoo... and I wasnt invited
It's called "risk management".
I'm 29!
Good luck.
You have that wrong. Clinton is not a "libertarian", he is a libertine. Big difference.
IIRC, the A-Team drove a black van.
;)
I pity the fool who doesn't know that!
Sentimentality is merely the Bank Holiday of cynicism.
- Oscar Wilde
One Bush voter, speaking on condition of anonymity, said ...
One of the problems of privacy advocates is that you can never get a reliable attributable quote from them.
Print me a list of his credit card transactions, the itineries from his plane journeys and his bank balance and I will be impressed.
Quick! Call Hugh Jackman's character from Swordfish!
-- jimmycarter
Once again, life imitates humorous SciFi - the TIA project sounds amazingly like the Total Perspective Vortex.
try { do() || do_not(); } catch (JediException err) { yoda(err); }
Go take a look at the movie "Minority Report" (BTW, I haven't personally seen the movie...
Always good to hear about new folks entering into the electorate commenting on things they don't know anything about. Don't forget to vote in the primaries!
The line must be drawn here. This far. No further.
But the gun ... no, the gun is neither good nor bad.
Exactly! I was trying to explain to my kid's teacher why they should repeal that rule against bringing a nailbomb to school (it was only for show-and-tell). I mean it was a cool father-daughter project that we spent many hours on together. I even explained to that dimwitted teacher that that it's completely safe; after all, you'd have to light the fuse for it to go off!
Unfortunately, I had to put my next project on hold: a nuclear breeder reactor, because her Girl Guides leader said THAT wasn't an acceptable project. Sheesh! I mean, we were going to use gloves and everything.
People need to understand that my kids do whatever I tell them, so when I left that loaded handgun on the coffee table and told them to leave it alone, I knew they would do exactly as I said, because MY kids always do exactly what I say. If my son picked it up and looked down the barrel and pulled the trigger, it wouldn't be due to curiosity, it was because his morality told him to do it. Thank GOD I instilled morality in my kids in place of curiosity.
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." - Mark Twain
wait a few days and ring him again
There are places where the networks are not touching,and there are places where they are-Boeing's Lori Gunter
mmm'kay?
Later this afternoon I'm going to drive over to his house and take some pictures with my digital camera and put 'em on the web. So far we've got all of his info and even satellite pictures, but no actual pictures. And since I live so close I figure I might as well do what thousands of nerds in my position would do on their own. I'll be posting the link to the pics as a follow-up to this post as soon as I take them this afternoon.
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