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From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
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Subject: Re: Big Brother IS wtaching you - cross border phone traffic
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Date: Sat, 8-Dec-84 00:00:00 EST
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Posted: Sat Dec  8 00:00:00 1984
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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