interesting article on facebooks neocon politics .
kind of confirms my suspicions about it being used for social engineering.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jan/14/facebook
On consideration, I don't think much of that article - who has to submit ID card details to facebook, for starters? Or consumer preferences, for that matter? Surely anyone who signs up to such sites is hopelessly naive if they think the data they enter isn't going to strip-mined, and if you buy things through it, then your consumer data too.
I notice they've printed a correction today:
"The following correction was printed in the Guardian's Corrections and clarifications column, Wednesday January 16 2008
The US intelligence community's enthusiasm for hi-tech innovation after 9/11 and the creation of In-Q-Tel, its venture capital fund, in 1999 were anachronistically linked in the article below. Since 9/11 happened in 2001 it could not have led to the setting up of In-Q-Tel two years earlier."
Thirdly, a close friend of mine had very unpleasent dealings with the editors of the Idler. They sounded like a right bunch of cunts.