[geeks] This bogles my mind

[Michael S. Schiller]

Well, somebody I know was contacted by the NSA due to using pgp from europe to
send email back to this country, so I'd say that their monitoring of email was
definitely being done. :)

-Mike

ward at zilla.nu wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 12:20:04PM -0400, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:
>
> > When I worked for a pharmaceutical company at a manufactoring plant, I
> > never heard anything about a background check being done.  And I had free
> > access to all the production lines, etc.
>
> It was a legal requirement of some sort when I was working there, but I
> had access to a lot of stuff despite just being the computer ops
> manager.  General Generics / PDQ Wholesale was the distributor.
>
> > I'd be interested in seeing confirmation of the phones being monitored and
> > the email read by people other than my ISPs employees.
>
> The NSA has a policy of monitoring international faxes and emails.
> Whether or not they really do it, I couldn't confirm.  Echelon is an
> NSA/GCHQ project for international communication monitoring, but on several
> occasions, it has been reportedly used on domestic calls (illegally).
> The House did some poking around in 1999/2000 (particularly Robert
> Barr), but they don't have much jurisdiction over them.  The Foreign
> Intelligence Authorization Act for 2000 (HR 1555) didn't include nearly
> as much about it as originally planned, but it does make it clear that
> the National Reconnaissance Office will be reviewed and monitored.
>
> As far as the semantic recognition, check into Semantic Forests.
>
> Henderson, G.D., Schone, P., Crystal, T.H., Text Retrieval via Semantic
> Forests: TREC7, Proc. TREC-7, Nov. 1998.
>
> The TREC Spoken Document Retrieval Track: A Success Story - John S.
> Garofolo, Cedric.. (2000)
>
> Reagen
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