Newsweek's Michael Hirsch reports that John Poindexter's Total Information Awareness lives on - as Topsoil. And, Hirsch argues, Topsoil's sophistication and capabiliites may represent one of the few bright spots in a piece that opines it's not Big Brother so much as NSA incompetence and outmodedness we should be worried about. Update: For more on the NSA's technology problems, particularly with the Trailblazer program, see this piece by the Baltimore Sun's Siobhan Gorman.

Posted by Laura at February 8, 2006 04:55 PM