[Design] FYI: Software Pioneer Quits Groove Networks

[Gary Yuen]

There was also an article on the register..

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/29712.html

It refers to Groove networks being an early beneficiary of Panopticon 
Pork. I wasn't able to find out what that exactly means but definitely 
it's about Jeremy Bentham's Panopticon and a method of surveillance. 
Groove seems to have for some time been becoming a surveillance 
software. This is definitely a fear. As software becomes more adapable 
to you and works with you--partially with what longhorn will do and 
then someday as computers become your best friend or even a replica of 
yourself and begins to act for you--privacy will be so hard to keep 
track of.  Another article mentioned Mitch's concern for privacy and 
his continued pursuit to protect it. I'm glad there's important people 
talking about these things. Like Joy speaking of the risk of 
nano-tech..The future of tech could mean the end of humanity. Not 
enough people think about these things.

Gary

Am Wednesday, 12.03.03 um 12:51 Uhr schrieb Michael Herman 
((Parallelspace)):

> Software Pioneer Quits Groove Networks
> By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
>
> Filed at 6:25 p.m. ET March 11, 2003
>
> SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -- Mitch Kapor, a software pioneer and privacy
> advocate, has quit the board of Groove Networks Inc. after it sold
> collaboration software to a controversial Department of Defense 
> surveillance
> project.
>
> In an interview Tuesday, Kapor declined to elaborate on his departure 
> other
> than to say he has long planned to increase his focus on a nonprofit 
> venture
> and will remain a major Groove shareholder.
>
> ...
>
> On Tuesday, Groove spokesman Richard Eckel confirmed Kapor's 
> resignation,
> which occurred in January. He also confirmed that the Defense Advanced
> Research Project Agency, of which the TIA office is a project, is a 
> client.
>
> ``Mitch left the board to pursue spending 100 percent of his time on
> nonprofit activities,'' Eckel said.
>
> ...
>
> The Total Information Office, led by former Reagan administration 
> national
> security adviser John Poindexter, is attempting to develop a
> terrorist-identification system that could sift through financial,
> telephone, travel and medical records of citizens.
>
> ...
>
> Kapor said he is troubled by the project.
>
> ``I'm a very committed civil libertarian, and along with other civil
> libertarians, I have significant concerns about the potential damage 
> to our
> freedoms from the TIA project,'' he said.
>
> ...
>
>
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