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."

Comments

Short memory?

[Platinum Dragon]

John Poindexter hasn't broken any laws

Sure he has, he just can't be tried and convicted for his criminal acts because Congress handed him immunity.

Supplying weapons to terrorists not a crime?

[hughk]

Last I heard, he was directly implicated in the supply of weapons to terrorists. Ok, he got immunity from a friendly regime, but Poindexter broke laws that any other person would spend a long time in prison for.

An Impossible Dream

[leek]

TIA: An Impossible Socialist Dream

Re:Interesting-- the "re-education" of America?

[paganizer]

Perhaps not so slowly.
My kids are continually getting lectures on what proper citizens do; this of course bears very little resemblance to what they see at home. My first inkling of how bad it was getting was when my daughter, who I've taken shooting before, asked why it was OK for us to have guns when her teachers all say they are bad.
Grrrrr.

Re:Funny, but kinda tangential to the point

[Jeremy Erwin]

John Poindexter broke many laws, as head of the NSC during the Reagan administration. Does the "Iran Contra scandal" ring a bell? He was tried, and convicted for lying to Congress, although the conviction was later overturned on the grounds that he was granted immunity.

You might want to check this out.

[Proteus Child]

There is a petition posted on Petition Online to have the Homeland Security bill amended to be less invasive of personal privacy, viz, disallowing the TIA initiative. Take a look at it.