Well, the YouTube video was taken down due to a copyright claim.
No Place to Hide: Not shocking, but not pleasant to think about. The rhetoric is really powerful: “When you go to work, stop at the store, fly in a plane, or surf the web, you are being watched. They know where you live, the value of your home, the names of your friends and family, in some cases even what you read. Where the data revolution meets the needs of national security, there is no place to hide.” I generally distrust arguments centered around an us vs. them argument, though the information presented here is compelling.
This point of view might be more widely accepted if its proponents would stop using such dramatic language. It makes them sound like conspiracy theorists, not the well-informed people that really they are.
TIA and Data Mining: Yikes! Federal Profiling Agency? 200 data mining projects? I’m not convinced that that quantity of information would be manageable, much less ethical.
The eDNA project is particularly scary. “The New York Times reports that DARPA considered but decided not to pursue a plan to uniquely identify Web users through tying their communications to biometric identifiers. The eDNA proposal read: ‘We envisage that all network and client resources will maintain traces of user eDNA so that the user can be uniquely identified as having visited a Web site, having started a process or having sent a packet.’ “ I’m glad that project was cancelled.
As a side note, the site was last updated in 2005 – I wonder why?
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