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Keeping An Eye On Total Information Awareness

Posted by Hemos on from the watching-the-watchers-who-watch-the-watching dept.

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."

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  1. Total my arse by Alan+Partridge · · Score: 5, Funny

    TIA only serves to demonstrate the supreme arrogance of the US govt - quick! search the big database for "white van"

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    1. Re:Total my arse by greenjinjo · · Score: 5, Funny
      quick! search the big database for "white van"

      Now that would be handy. That way we could also get a grip on these pesky guys calling themselves The A-team.

    2. Re:Total my arse by Alan+Partridge · · Score: 5, Funny

      well, they ARE fugitives from military justice. However, if they can promptly escape from a maximum security stockade, I doubt we can hold 'em a second time. Maybe we should just hire 'em?

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  2. PARTY! by RobertTaylor · · Score: 4, Funny

    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 :(

  3. Funny, but kinda tangential to the point by PhysicsGenius · · Score: 3, Funny
    This system is designed to track present and future criminals. John Poindexter hasn't broken any laws, nor is he likely to whereas the general public obviously breaks laws all the time.

    It's called "risk management".

  4. Misread by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    You have that wrong. Clinton is not a "libertarian", he is a libertine. Big difference.

  5. White van? by stardeep · · Score: 5, Funny

    IIRC, the A-Team drove a black van.

    I pity the fool who doesn't know that! ;)

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  6. I refuse to say who I am. by 91degrees · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  7. Re:Send in the real crackers by jimmyCarter · · Score: 4, Funny

    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!

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  8. Prescience of Douglas Adams by ch-chuck · · Score: 4, Funny

    Once again, life imitates humorous SciFi - the TIA project sounds amazingly like the Total Perspective Vortex.

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  9. Re:I would...but one voice gets drowned out by Metrol · · Score: 3, Funny

    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!

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  10. Re:Interesting-- the "re-education" of America? by Bemmu · · Score: 3, Funny
    her teachers all say they are bad.

    mmm'kay?