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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. Short memory? by Platinum+Dragon · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

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  2. Supplying weapons to terrorists not a crime? by hughk · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

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  3. Re:Interesting-- the "re-education" of America? by paganizer · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

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