The way I understand it is that all telephone communications are
monitored by the NSA with several acres of computers somewhere that
select out likely candidates for human operators. There is also an
interesting book about the development of effective computer
encryption that details how NSA has thwarted it, the attitude being
that you have no right to any communication that they cannot monitor.
I saw Carnivore described as an FBI program that is installed in the
ISP and that can be activated for any subscriber at any time by the
FBI and without the knowledge of ISP or subscriber to monitor the
internet activity and email content of anyone they are interested in.
The problem is that it bypasses any legal protection that would be
available to someone who would be wiretapped. That is they do not
have to go to a judge and prove their need to know in order to listen
in. The "listening in" in this case would be much less onerous than
listening to conversations.
Winsor
Long Beach, California, USA
On May 16, 2005, at 7:06 PM, Moose wrote:
> John Hermanson wrote:
>
>
>> As I understand 'they' are using a program named 'Carnivore' which
>> scans ALL
>> email EVERWHERE for certain key words.
>>
>> John Hudson wrote:
>>
>> If anyone read James Bamfords' "Puzzle Palace" [ it was a long
>> tome about
>> the NSA ["No Such Agency"!]] in the early 1980s he made it quite
>> clear that
>> Uncle Sam had the capacity to monitor, evesdrop on, and record
>> EVERY phone
>> call within the USA, those that were made within the US and destined
>> elsewhere and those that were entering the country from elsewhere.
>>
>>
>>
>
> Lordy there must be a lot of bored people on the other end. Just
> listening to the one end of some long cell phone conversations for
> a few
> moments leads me to believe that listening to and/or reading all that
> stuff would take hundreds of thousands of agents and they would lose
> thousands to funny farms every month.
>
> Just because they "can", technically, doesn't mean they "can",
> practically.
>
> How would you like to have tomonitor this and a few hundred other
> lists
> every day, most or all of them on subjects in which you have no
> interest? Got to be one of the circles of a contemporary hell.
>
> Moose
>
>
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