Gawd, can you imagine anything more tedious than trying to profile someone based on websites visited? The number one use of the Internet is porn, so if you visit a porn site, big deal, so did everyone else. The other big three, not sure of the sequence, are genealogy, investing, and health research. Then there's news sites - today I visited Arabia.com from a link on the Oil thread, some coverage of the twelve year old boy and his father that were shot in Palestine over the weekend. I also occasionally read news sites in places where the news is happening, like Red China and Kosovo and Chechenya, and of course, the Drudge Report, daily. Does that make me suspicious? I doubt that anyone in the government cares.
My bet is that governments MAY try to keep track of people that have already aroused their suspicions, but the really scary guys are using encryption, and if they are smart, spoofing their computer ID. |
