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Re: $400 million network upgrade for the Pentagon
From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles () skynet be>
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 22:02:54 +0200
At 8:36 PM -0700 2002/08/14, Scott Granados wrote:
Can the nsa for example listen in somehow to eering points or other such common areas and observe things that interest them?
Yup. Google for "ECHELON" and read the lengthy report that was prepared for the government of the European Union.
I know the answer in the voice network is yes but that's technically easier. On the ip network that would seem to be m uch more difficult.
Not for the NSA. Indeed, voice has to be converted to data in order to go through the search algorithms, so it's actually a lot easier to just search data that doesn't have to first be converted.
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Current thread:
- RE: $400 million network upgrade for the Pentagon, (continued)
- RE: $400 million network upgrade for the Pentagon Daniel Golding (Aug 14)
- RE: $400 million network upgrade for the Pentagon Brad Knowles (Aug 14)
- RE: $400 million network upgrade for the Pentagon Scott Granados (Aug 14)
- RE: $400 million network upgrade for the Pentagon Brad Knowles (Aug 15)
- Re: $400 million network upgrade for the Pentagon David Lesher (Aug 14)
- Re: $400 million network upgrade for the Pentagon Scott Granados (Aug 14)
- RE: $400 million network upgrade for the Pentagon Daniel Golding (Aug 15)
- Re: $400 million network upgrade for the Pentagon David Lesher (Aug 15)
- Re: $400 million network upgrade for the Pentagon Gerald (Aug 15)
- RE: $400 million network upgrade for the Pentagon Brad Knowles (Aug 15)
- Re: $400 million network upgrade for the Pentagon Brad Knowles (Aug 15)
- Re: $400 million network upgrade for the Pentagon Brad Knowles (Aug 15)
- RE: $400 million network upgrade for the Pentagon David Schwartz (Aug 15)
- Re: $400 million network upgrade for the Pentagon Brad Knowles (Aug 13)