Watching The Watchers Watching You, Continued.

A reader writes:"After a SF Weekly column on DARPA's TIA, attention has turned to the Poindexter Family house. Using legal/public means groups are finding and publishing Alan's phone numbers, address, etc."Those with access to DMV and criminal records databases, credit card records, telephone bills, tax records, birth and death and marriage records, medical records, and similar personally identifiable databases could combine their information publicly to assist in the demonstration." Some seem to trust in TIA's benevolence, but I believe otherwise. Perhaps it is already too late? At least I can rest assured HumanID isn't operational. Yet. "

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Alan?

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A reader writes:"After a SF Weekly column on DARPA's TIA, attention has turned to the Poindexter Family house. Using legal/public means groups are finding and publishing Alan's phone numbers, address, etc."

I'm reading this, and wondering, who the hell's Alan?. Is this some ambitious malapropism for "Admiral John" (Poindexter)?

The SF Weekly column (toward the bottom, as part of a series of reader contributions) reveals Alan is Poindexter's son.

< insert obligatory rant about /. editors here >

PS: The first link into the "Poindexter Family" website contains highly annoying embedded midi music. So try to get your pointy-headed boss to click on it.