Getting to Know You, Getting to Know All About You
It’s called Total Information Awareness and the man in charge of it is none other than John Poindexter, one of the Iran/Contra convicts of the Reagan administration. And there’s very little way to sugar-coat the reality: Total Information Awareness means spying on you using every means at the government’s disposal.
What are they looking for? Whatever. Since they won’t be using warrants, they don’t have to say what they’re looking for. They don’t even have to know in advance what they’re looking for. It’s just utterly open-ended fishing in the private data of law-abiding citizens, looking for whatever happens to be of interest to the powerful elite.
As a fine example of what this can mean, some lovable hackers have published some of John Poindexter’s personal information all over the web. Be sure to give the man a call at home.