Must-read John Markoff story in today’s Times detailing meetings held under the auspices of DARPA last summer that considered — only to wisely reject — restructuring the nature of the Net to allow the government to track pretty much everything. One more piece of the growing and increasingly weird “Total Information Awareness” puzzle: “The Pentagon research agency that is exploring how to create a vast database of electronic transactions and analyze them for potential terrorist activity considered but rejected another surveillance idea: tagging Internet data with unique personal markers to make anonymous use of some parts of the Internet impossible.”
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