TIPS, We hardly knew ye.

Reason Online has both derided and mocked the Justice Department's plans to create a new citizen-informant program called Operation: TIPS. With the recently passed Homeland Security Act prohibiting implementation of the program, the Web page DOJ had set up for the program has gone down an Orwellian Memory Hole—appropriate, really. For those who don't want to forget – and showing how widespread computer use can be an effective weapon against tyranny and not just a tool for it – you can find the old web page cached here.