Ok, this is going too far

[andrewducker]

Invading foreign countries on imagined charges I can understand.

Imprisoning people without charge and torturing them for months sounds justifiable.

But now they've gone too far!  They've appointed the head of security for the company behind Gator to the Department of Homeland Security's "Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee".

Will someone please reassure me that the USA is just a huge joke and doesn't really exist?  They're just something made up by The Onion, right?

Comments

[cheekbones3.livejournal.com]

Whaaaaaaaaaaat? One of the fecking worst companies for filling computers with shit? My god! Speaking as somebody that in less experienced days downloaded a Gator product...

[red-cloud.livejournal.com]

Makes sense in a warped poacher-turned-gamekeeper kind of way.

[josephgrossberg.livejournal.com]

Well, if Kevin Mitnick can consult on how *not* to get hacked ...

[terminalmalaise.livejournal.com]

*sigh* it seems to be true.

The Salon article I read said the Gator/Claria exec was actually their "chief privacy officer" . . . it also mentions that the DHS' own chief privacy officer used to work for DoubleClick.

[gomichan.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, no. It's for real, and we're getting pretty damn nervous over here, let me tell you. :(