According to this a.m.'s NYTimes, the National Security Agency -- in addition to its already notorious illegal data-mining of domestic communications -- has been installing a form of spyware on the computers of anyone visiting the NSA website. The spyware, known as "persistent cookies," can track the Web surfing of your ordinary Joe or Jane who just happened to visit the NSA site for whatever reason.
Not only that, but when a privacy activist discovered the cookies on his own machine and alerted the Associated Press, the NSA quickly disabled the program and said it was all a mistake.
It's an illegal mistake.
Tip of the iceberg, folks. Tip of the iceberg.
Thursday, December 29, 2005
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