[Air-l] FW: [chineseinternetresearch] National Science Foundation to help CIA spy on IRC chatrooms

Paul Jones pjones at metalab.unc.edu
Sun Nov 28 11:47:02 PST 2004


Of particular interest in this regard is how this very procedure was 
described in the pre-cyberpunk "True Names" by Vernor Vinge. Almost the 
same stories embeded in the news report.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_Names

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