Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site looking.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!looking!brad From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) Newsgroups: net.followup,net.flame,net.politics Subject: Re: Big Brother IS wtaching you - cross border phone traffic Message-ID: <221@looking.UUCP> Date: Sat, 8-Dec-84 00:00:00 EST Article-I.D.: looking.221 Posted: Sat Dec 8 00:00:00 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 8-Dec-84 06:47:10 EST References: <237@celerity.UUCP> Organization: Looking Glass Software, Waterloo, Ont Lines: 18 Xref: watmath net.followup:4183 net.flame:7131 net.politics:6158 While it is legal for the NSA to tap USA to Canada phone calls, I am sure that the volume is far far too large for them to do so. When you consider that the USA and Canada are largest international traders in the world (yup, you guys buy and sell more from Canada than any other nation, including Japan and England) and that they have what are probably the two most advanced and connected phone systems in the world, and that they have close to the longest border in the world, it all adds up to a lot of phone calls. Now the usenet traffic to Europe, that's another story. They supposedly do listen to those calls, and I guess they might even decode modems - it makes their job easier for us to send it all in machine readable form! I wonder what would happen if we stuck encryption on the trans-atlantic link? Would there be some curious counter-intelligence forces (their only descriptive name) poking around within minutes? -- Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd. - Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473