Re: Get your that questioning travel in back of my hallway.

your son's school play. "Boy," you say sadly, "Bobby really bombed last
night," or perhaps you use the word "assassination" or "sabotage" or any
one of the key words the computer has been told to flag.

A hard copy of your conversation is produced, passed to the appropriate
section (in this case terrorism), and probably ends up in the garbage.

But perhaps the conversation is not so clear-cut or the analyst has poor
judgement. Then your name is permanently filed under "possible terrorist".
Weeks or even years later, you have a similar conversation and use the
same words; the computer filters it out again. Since this is your second
time, your name moves from the "possible" to the "probable" file.

Sound absurd? Not at all; it actually happened while I was at CSE.
[snip]

SIGINT specialists are honing their skills at monitoring digital
information. SIGINT agencies everywhere are increasingly throwing
their surveillance web over the Internet and other data networks
of interest.
[snip]


Mini-recap:

o The countries sharing intelligence: US, UK, Canada, Australia,
New Zealand

o Massive domestic spying by the NSA, using an Orwellian "1984"
technology to search all communications using computers, including
domestic phone calls, via keyword searches.

o Circumvention of domestic spy laws via friendly "foreign" agents

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Wow.


How chilling to think the military has set up
a real-life domestic Orwellian spy apparatus.

Used repeatedly for political purposes.


ECHELON has almost no Military purpose left:
Russia is practicall


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