The Canary in the Data Mine

The Canary in the Data Mine
Mark Rasch, 2003-01-20

The government's "Total Information Awareness" project aims at protecting us from harm by burrowing deep into our lives. One lawmaker is rightfully suspicious.

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Safeguards yes, but there's always a superuser somewhere... 2003-01-20
tekhedd@byteheaven.net (1 replies)

Once all the information is collected, we could easily have the information nightmare described in John Brunner's "The Shockwave Rider", where information is available to (and editable by) those with sufficient privelage. It doesn't have to stop with personal information, for that matter....

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Safeguards yes, but there's always a superuser somewhere... 2003-01-21
Anonymous

I agree that safe guards only prevent the average user from mischief. We have safe gueards in government but still we see scandalous behaviour on the part of "Trusted" officials.
So my data gets misused and I want to claim or go to court can you imagine the amount of hard work and headaches to sort...

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The Canary in the Data Mine 2003-01-20
ArtFart

Where the hell is Archibald Tuttle, now that we need him?...

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The Canary in the Data Mine 2003-01-21
Anonymous (1 replies)

Yet another argument for end users to utilize strong encryption. Proliferate PGP!...

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The Canary in the Data Mine 2003-01-28
Anonymous

Better still, proliferate GPG.

http://www.gnupg.org...

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And for those who seek to "opt out"? 2003-01-21
Anonymous

At H2K2 hacker conference last summer, Steve Rambam --a private investigator speaking on databases-- commented that "people who pay only in cash make some people nervous and there are databases on people who pay only in cash."

So for people who present "holes" or "too lwo of profiles" in TIA, wil...

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