Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site spar.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!decwrl!spar!baba From: baba@spar.UUCP (Baba ROM DOS) Newsgroups: net.followup,net.flame,net.politics Subject: Re: Big Brother Message-ID: <4@spar.UUCP> Date: Thu, 13-Dec-84 22:29:00 EST Article-I.D.: spar.4 Posted: Thu Dec 13 22:29:00 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 16-Dec-84 06:32:42 EST References: <237@celerity.UUCP>, <221@looking.UUCP>, <839@houxf.UUCP>, <381@hou2g.UUCP> <841@houxf.UUCP> Organization: Schlumberger Palo Alto Research, CA Lines: 18 Xref: watmath net.followup:4258 net.flame:7243 net.politics:6339 > >> I am amazed at the naivete of those who underestimate the capacity > >> of the NSA. ... You better believe they're listening > >> to everything, including encrypted messages especially. > > >...that translates into more than 10^6 MIPS worth of processing. That's > >about 1000 Crays and we haven't even begun to talk about encrypted data... > > Oh, come on, grow up! (-:) First of all, 1000 Crays is a gross > everestimate of the expense of carrying out such surveillance. > Be creative! This is a *highly* parallel problem. You want a > tremendous number of identical pattern recognition machines. Think VLSI. Well, I always liked the story that the *real* reason that IBM shut down it's Josephson junction project was that it had delivered the specified number of systems to the NSA and was fulfilling the final clause in the contract. Baba