EPIC (Electronic Privacy Information Center) has a page on the scary/ludicrous Total Information Awareness project (see my earlier post).
Why ludicrous? Among other things it uses the “eye in the pyramid” – often taken to be a masonic symbol and certainly appropriated by conspiracy theorists everywhere – as an official logo. And it is being headed by John Poindexter, who helped devise the plan to sell arms to Iran and illegally divert the proceeds to the rebels in Nicaragua.
Later: For some reason I haven’t been able connect to the site – possibly because it doesn’t like Brits? Anyway, a friend downloaded the sinister logo:
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I don’t understand why everyone is so bothered by the eye-in-the-pyramid thing. It may be goofy, but all government logos are (at least in the US, and especially military-related ones).
However (and you may not know this, being in the UK): Every $1 bill has the same symbol on the back!
Comment by me — 22 November 2002 @ 5:57 pm