Life with big brother

Internet users hoping to protect their privacy by using anti-virus software, ,Web anonymizers, false identities and disabled cookies on their computer's Web browser have something new to worry about – a patent filed by the National Security Agency (NSA) for technology that will identify the physical location of any Web surfer.

Patent 6,947,978, granted this week, describes a process based on latency, or time lag between computers exchanging data, of "numerous" known locations on the Internet to build a "network latency topology map" for all users. Identifying the physical location of an individual user, reports CNET News.com, could then be accomplished by measuring how long it takes to connect to an unknown computer from numerous known machines, and using the latency response to display location on a map.

NSA is so secret that its acronym has been said to stand for "No Such Agency." According to its website, "the National Security Agency/Central Security Service ... coordinates, directs, and performs highly specialized activities to protect U.S. government information systems and produce foreign signals intelligence information. A high technology organization, NSA is on the frontiers of communications and data processing. It is also one of the most important centers of foreign language analysis and research within the government."

According to a spokman in this agency , he said : "If, as we are speaking , Post-9-11, if bin Laden goes online, NSA may actually know where he is “..

Then why don’t you use it to locate “Al-Zarkawi ” website adminstration and all other terrorist’s websites,?!! instead of letting them advertise themselves every day and recruiting more brain-washed young men ??!!!!

Perhaps we can see results soon after long waiting .