Big Brother may be watching - but so is Little Brother.

[Swamp Fox]

Everyone knows of the fear that surveillance technology will allow Big Brother - ie, the government - to spy on people. But the proliferation of technology has allowed everyone to spy on each other.

What was true for PC's is now true for other technologies - the spread of capability in the hands of individuals. (http://www.economist.com/science/tq/displayStory.cfm?Story_id=3422918)

Well, I can now watch Leon and make sure he's not stealing my Strawberry. :happy:

[Stiofán]

Every post one makes online is now checked, our photos are taken at all airports, federal buildings and various other locals so why not with the text features of cell phones. As a matter of fact, if it resides on a server somewhere, anywhere, it's being watched.

[John R. Beanham]

There is a joint US/Australian spy base at Pine Gap, about 20 kms from Alice Springs in central Australia. This base picks up ALL satellite, cable, radio telephone, and radio transmissions around the world.

Many words such as BOMB, ASSASSINATE, etc are flagged and checked, as this one will be.

BEWARE!

John.

[rowd]

Your talking about ECHELON (http://eyeball-series.org/yrs-eyeball.htm) ?"

http://www.fas.org/irp/eprint/ic2000/ic2000.htm A newly intercepted communications satellite or data link can be analyzed using the AST Model 196 "Transponder characterization system". Once its basic communications structure has been analyzed, the Model 195 "Wideband snapshot analyzer", also known as SNAPPER, can record sample data from even the highest capacity systems, sufficient to Analise communications in minute detail. By the start of 1999, operating in conjunction with the Model 990 "Flexible Data Acquisition Unit", this systems was able to record, playback and Analise at data rates up to 2.488 Gbps (SONET OC-48). This is 16 times faster than the largest backbone links in general use on the Internet; larger than the telephony capacity of any current communications satellite; and equivalent to 40,000 simultaneous telephone calls. It can be fitted with 48 Gbyte of memory (500-1000 times larger than found in an average personal computer), enabling relatively lengthy recordings of high-speed data links. The 2.5 Gbps capacity of a single SNAPPER unit exceeds the current daily maximum data rate found on a typical large Internet exchange

Traffic analysis, keyword recognition, text retrieval, and topic analysis

Advanced systems have been developed to perform very high speed sorting of large volumes of intercepted information. In the late 1980s, the manufacturers of the RHYOLITE Sigint satellites, TRW, designed and manufactured a Fast Data Finder (FDF) microchip for NSA. The FDF chip was declassified in 1972 and made available for commercial use by a spin-off company, Paracel. Since then Paracel has sold over 150 information filtering systems, many of them to the US government. Paracel describes its current FDF technology as the "fastest, most accurate adaptive filtering system in the world":

Very interesting Link HERE (http://cryptome.org/cryptout.htm#Echelon)

[Biker]

.............so why not with the text features of cell phones.

:lol: They'll LOVE reading the ones I send. Then again... Is there any law against sending explicit messages via text messaging? :blush:

[Stiofán]

Echelon, Carnivore, other non-named systems no doubt. I'd relay a funny and scary story I heard from a Fed the other day, but then I'd have to kill you all, right before they came and killed me. It's not worth the punchline. :) Besides, you all know what's going on anyway.

[Coot]

Ah well, they aren't disappearing us all because of what we think...yet. Although I hear the Fed is full of malcontents who might prove to be the first experimental models. ;)

[John R. Beanham]

" Is there any law against sending explicit messages via text messaging? :blush:"



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