Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site spp2.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!trwrb!trwspp!spp2!jhull From: jhull@spp2.UUCP Newsgroups: net.followup,net.politics,net.flame Subject: Re: Big Brother Message-ID: <313@spp2.UUCP> Date: Fri, 14-Dec-84 14:27:54 EST Article-I.D.: spp2.313 Posted: Fri Dec 14 14:27:54 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 17-Dec-84 03:08:42 EST References: <221@looking.UUCP> <1120@cca.UUCP> Reply-To: jhull@spp2.UUCP (Jeff Hull) Organization: TRW, Redondo Beach CA Lines: 45 Xref: watmath net.followup:4263 net.politics:6349 net.flame:7254 Summary: In an earlier article, somebody wrote: >> 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... >First of all, 1000 Crays is a gross overestimate ... >I also concede that they don't listen to absolutely >*EVERYTHING*, they have to be selective. The basic procedure is: 1) Listen to everything you can. 2) Place each data source in a category by how interesting it is, i.e., how often it will be scanned fully in the future 3) Use the capacity released by 2 to scan something else. Make the scanning frequency assignments of 2 such that every data source gets scanned at least once and at least sometime after that Here, we are only referring to digital traffic. Analog traffic is something else entirely, but the basic procedure is similar. >You can bet they stopped those practices after the "kremvax" affair.... > > Piet Beertema, CWI, Amsterdam >... something a public as "news" ... >(2) For other stuff, ... under the relevant federal court >decisions interpreting the federal wiretap statute, ... > + Donald E. Eastlake, III You can ABSOLUTELY count on monitoring continuing today and probably forever, regardless of what the courts say. I don't know what "those practices" are. -- Blessed Be, jhull@spp2.UUCP Jeff Hull trwspp!spp2!jhull@trwrb.UUCP 13817 Yukon Ave. Hawthorne, CA 90250