Poindexter vs the Net [NYT]

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/22/politics/22TRAC.html?pagewanted=print&posi
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November 22, 2002

Agency Weighed, but Discarded, Plan Reconfiguring the Internet

By JOHN MARKOFF

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.

The idea, which was explored at a two-day workshop in California
in August, touched off an angry private dispute among computer
scientists and policy experts who had been brought together to
assess the implications of the technology.

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