Just like He-man and transformers, these fantastic and bizarre entertainments of our childhood keep cropping up in new, repackaged forms.
1994? Echelon? AOL? Anyone with me, here?
I'm just tickled that it's actually getting PRESS this time. In some ways, there's never been a worse time to go forward with mass surveilance: people are already watching for that "bridge too far". Last time a text parser and parameter search got applied to an e-mail chokepoint, it got a one-paragraph blurb...
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Date: 2006-02-08 06:55 am (UTC)1994? Echelon? AOL?
Anyone with me, here?
I'm just tickled that it's actually getting PRESS this time. In some ways, there's never been a worse time to go forward with mass surveilance: people are already watching for that "bridge too far". Last time a text parser and parameter search got applied to an e-mail chokepoint, it got a one-paragraph blurb...
...on an Australian news site.