From: KPJ (kpj@sics.se)
Date: Tue Apr 30 2002 - 05:50:28 MDT
It appears as if <ckuecker@ckent.org> wrote:
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|It's not so much the tech - it's the logistics. Kind of like "1984"'s
|telescreens - how could they ever monitor ALL of them?
In Orwell's book Nineteen Eighty-four they used humans in the loop:
the Inner Party spied on the Outer Party. Much like STASI in DDR
and KGB in SSSR did.
|I would believe they have to capability to monitor any given line at a
|moment's notice - perhaps hundreds of thousands at once - but this is a far
|cry form recording every word.
You might wish to inspect the recent patents on using computers to recognize
speech, and correlate that to the purchase of software using these patents
by no such agencies. You may call it an exchange, or you might call it a
computer, it really does not make a difference. The current technology can
do it speed-wise. Enough money buys enough technology. The faster the hardware
becomes, the more communication (data, speech, whatever) they can check.
I guess the domestic surveillence in the U.S. does not include all phone
calls. Yet.
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