I don't even know how to describe this one. It's called, creepily enough, Perfect Citizen. Check out this article on Reuters:
The program, dubbed Perfect Citizen, is "purely a vulnerabilities-assessment and capabilities-development contract," Judith Emmel, a National Security Agency spokeswoman, said in an email to Reuters.
"This is a research and engineering effort," she said. "There is no monitoring activity involved, and no sensors are employed in this endeavor."
The Wall Street Journal, in its Thursday editions, described Perfect Citizen as relying on sensors it said would be deployed in networks running critical infrastructure such as the electricity grid and nuclear-power plants.
You know this is going to be bad, right? End of the free web, constant tracking of all electronic information, etc. If those three paragraphs don't give you an idea exactly how far we are down the Orwellian double-think pipeline, check out this unedited gem:
Raytheon Co won a classified contract for the classified work's initial phase valued at up to $100 million, the report cited a person familiar with the project as saying.
Joyce Kuzmin, a Raytheon spokeswoman, told Reuters in response: "We have no info on this."
One more quote. Bear in mind that under current US law, this sort of thing is now legal. I mean, Bush was willing to put in Cameras, but he never fucked with the internet. Only the Dems could get away with that.
"Any suggestions that there are illegal or invasive domestic activities associated with this contracted effort are simply not true," Emmel said. "We strictly adhere to both the spirit and the letter of U.S. laws and regulations."
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