Perfect Citizen

[Simplysnus]

http://www.computerworld.com/s/artic...search_program

Nothing to see here, move along please.

IDG News Service - The U.S. National Security Agency confirmed the existence of a controversial program aimed at protecting the country's critical infrastructure Thursday, but disputed claims that the program would monitor network traffic on critical infrastructure networks.

The program, called Perfect Citizen, was first disclosed Thursday in a Wall Street Journal article that said the NSA "would rely on a set of sensors deployed in computer networks for critical infrastructure that would be triggered by unusual activity."

[danielan]

What's with these names? They need a good PR firm.

"Perfect Citizen" reeks of Big Brother like Poindexter's "Total Information Awareness" program with its creepy "All Seeing Eye" logo.

[WickedKitchen]

The internet used to be like the Wild West. Next they will start taxing the S out of access like they do to cell phones to fund these sort of things. Then patterns of surfing will be tracked and the users of the IP's might be pegged as potential dangers to society...Man, if they saw some of the stuff I have looked at they'd have me committed right off the bat.

We'd be lying if we said we didn't smell this coming years ago though...and there will be much more to come. I'll forfeit my TV before I give up the web though so I'm willing to put up with more.