Big Brother Bad Idea Still Breathing

"In 2002, John Poindexter, a major outlaw in the Iran-Contra scandal, took the reins of the U.S. Defense Department’s Total Information Awareness project (TIA).x10 One of the features of TIA, was the...

BigBrotherState: The Video

The news has a predictable tenor to it:"The FBI improperly uses the Patriot Act to spy on thousands of Americans.Tony Blair asks for more resources to track terrorism.Sweden admits to phone taps on its citizens....

NSA shopping for snoopware

"National Security Agency officials slipped into Silicon Valley on one of the agency's periodic technology shopping expeditions. On the wish list, computerized systems that reveal connections between seemingly...