Geek War on Terror
March 18, 2004Over on my tech web log Talk.org I have written about the use of new “anonymous” identifiers used to search between relations in large scale distributed databases in a supposedly anonymous way:
Steven Levy has an interesting story on Newsweek entitled Geek War on Terror, which is about a new cypherpunkish approach to analyzing transactions from individuals in a anonymous manner. Very interesting. The technology isn?t new it just hasn?t really been applied in this way before. I am naturally sceptical about anything that allows big brother to check on us more, but the approach is interesting from a technical and moral standpoint.
