Captain’s Quarters alerts us to the fact that the NY Times, the AP, the Guardian, and CNN have all just made themselves the laughingstocks of the entire technical world. Hell, they’ve just made themselves out to be jokes to millions of people not in the technical world; anyone with the slightest bit of internet savvy. You see they all just carried a Very Important Story on the sinister spying being done by the NSA who have “accidentally” (on purpose of course…) begun using a tool to invade the privacy of computer users everywhere and track their moves by . . .

. . . wait for it . . .

. . . wait . . .

Installing cookies through the browser of anyone who visits the NSA site.

Oh. My. Quick, stop the presses! We’ve got to get the word out. . . I never realized Doubleclick was a branch of the NSA!

Just wait until the NSA discovers the evil powers of the mind control pop-up. . . .we’re helpless in the face of such insidious techno-wizardry! Or we would be, if it weren’t for the intrepid Danes. Don’t let anyone tell the NSA about Lavasoft. Without their jedi computer tricks, all hope of freedom in the galaxy would be extinguished as the Stormtechnos of the NSA conduct their secret operations to stomp it out.

“These port attacks are too precise. Besides, Tusken Raiders always send a single file.”