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From: jhull@spp2.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Big Brother
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Date: Fri, 14-Dec-84 14:27:54 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec 14 14:27:54 1984
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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.

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 jhull@spp2.UUCP			Jeff Hull
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