Re: home land tracker software

[gabriel rosenkoetter <gr () eclipsed net>]

On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 06:52:34PM +0000, DAN MORRILL wrote:
> http://www.ofaccompliance.com/
>
> secure the system when it is in use or misuse? You can check our own name 
> at the web site, as well as more popular folks.

Hrm. No hits for my name. No hits for my real first name (that I
never use, but is on my social security card). No hits for "Richard
Stallman". No hits for "Eric S.  Raymond". No hits for "Kevin
Mitnick". No hits for "Bill Clinton".

Ah, "Osama bin Laden" gets you something. "abdul" gets you one hit
(Atwah Muhsin Musa Matwalli, Abdul Rahman for short.) Abdul Rahman's
address is "Afghanistan", and they don't seem to know Osama's
whereabouts (please, no Bay of Pigs jokes).

I might be scared if it seemed like they had any data useful data, but
since it's not clear exactly what data they'd have anyway (knowing
that my name exists doesn't take more than Google, and you can get
way more than that with whois(1)).

How is this more scary than the (published!) FBI most wanted list?

Isn't the information they're "enabling" you to search publicly
available? Couldn't I just be using grep(1) as easily?

> My question is : what were they thinking?

My question is, what are you so worried about?

It's not that I think the PATRIOT act and things supporting it
aren't nasty and bad... it's just that this one seems to be totally
useless.

-- 
gabriel rosenkoetter
gr () eclipsed net

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