Watching You

BWJones writes "National Geographic is running a story this month on surveillance. I received my copy today and the article is reasonably extensive (for National Geographic) and well written, covering many issues that get attention here on Slashdot both good and bad. There is coverage of what's good with the technologies (a program called Poseidon that helps ensure folks don't drown in swimming pools) and what's bad (death of privacy). In between are some additional details on backscatter X-ray and a taste of some of the security for the 2002 Winter Olympics here in SLC. I got to see a little bit more than the average person of the security during the winter games as our building was the emergency backup headquarters if anything went wrong and was routinely crawling with FBI and other folks including the Secret Service making for some interesting nights at the lab."

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[anaphora]

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Instant annorexia.

A vote for 1984 is a vote for paranoia!

[Neophytus]

Vote for it in the BBC's Big Read final.

Slashdot popups?

[zapp]

Has anyone else noticed lately that slashdot has had some popups? I don't know what they were, but my blocker did notify me that it blocked a efw from slashdot.org.

Re:Not OT, Please Mod Parent Up

[Remik]

I just got one of these, and I was kinda pissed.

But, then I ran Adaware and found that somehow I'd picked up Gator in the last few days. It's possible that one of the links on the main page resulted in many people getting Gator installed recently, and now they are seeing these.

Run Adaware, then see if you get any more.

-R