Webwork - 9:47 pm on Jan 20, 2006 (gmt 0)

According to the radio news report I heard this morning on NPR the government's subpoena sought both the search queries AND the IP addresses from which those queries originated - covering a 2 month period.

Connect the dots: Query on July 3 from IP address of ###.##.##.###, which IP address was assigned by ISP ABC to the phone number of the Smith household during the hours of . . which corresponds to the queries for . . .

Now, aren't you glad that on that date your bored little mind, having just read a news article about the prolific sex habits of fruit flies lead you to do a search for . . .?

You think Uncle Sam doesn't have the computing power to match up that data?

Turn the lights out. Unplug the computer. Put down the cell phone. Somebody just can't resist sifting through all that data you are creating.

Knock, knock. "Who is it?" "Mr. Smith, it's your friend, the government. We have a subpoena for your computer. We're not looking for any personal data. We'd just like to take a look around inside your hard drive. You don't have a problem with that, do you?"

[edited by: Webwork at 9:56 pm (utc) on Jan. 20, 2006]