So why is this significant? Well, this guy’s name is John Poindexter, and he’s incidentally the guy who was found to be most responsible for the Iran-Contra sca

So why is this significant? Well, this guy’s name is John Poindexter, and he’s incidentally the guy who was found to be most responsible for the Iran-Contra scandal. He was convicted of lying to Congress but then never went to jail. And in 2001, he started a Government program called ‘Total Information Awareness’. He made a speech when he announced the program, where he said that “…data must be made available in large-scale repositories with enhanced semantic content for easy analysis”. http://privacy-pc.com/news/changing-threats-to-privacy-moxie-marlinspike-on-privacy-threats-at-defcon-part-2.html http://privacy-pc.com/news/changing-threats-to-privacy-moxie...