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From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 11:31:48 -0500
From: Joe Faber <Joe.Faber () raremedium com> To: "'Dave Farber'" <farber () cis upenn edu> Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 10:53:56 -0500 The Register has an interesting article about refinements to Echelon... pulls from a Reuters piece. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/8/17361.html Joe
CIA patching ECHELON shortcomings By: Thomas C Greene in Washington Posted: 06/03/2001 at 07:47 GMT A core objection to paranoid rants regarding the US National Security Agency (NSA) electronic eavesdropping apparatus called ECHELON is the simple observation that spooks trying to use it are literally buried in an avalanche of white noise from which it's quite difficult to extract anything pertinent. But now the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), no doubt with some assistance and guidance from NSA, is making strides towards cracking that little inconvenience. The CIA's Office of Advanced Information Technology is developing a number of data-mining enhancements to make life easy for those who would eavesdrop on electronic communications, Reuters reports. First up is a computer program called Oasis, which automatically converts audio signals into conveniently readable, and searchable, text. <snip> For archives see: http://www.interesting-people.org/
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