Snooping on the Snooper
By AAN Staff
december 18, 2002 10:02 am
SF Weekly
columnist Matt
Smith had
a simple
idea back on
November 27.
Angered by
former
Iran-Contra
conspirator
Admiral
John
Poindexter's
proposed
electronic data-base on all Americans--a
frightening
effort to compile the financial, medical,
employment,
school, credit and government records
of all citizens
-- he proposed in his column that
people do a
little snooping on Poindexter himself.
Smith helpfully
provided the
phone number -- and two weeks later,
his suggestion
is snowballing into a bona fide
crusade for
civil libertarians. In his latest column,
Smith provides
a fascinating progress report, and
learns that, in
the Information Age, when it comes to
messing with
someone who wants to mess with you,
calling their
home phone number is truly just the tip
of the iceberg.