I'm with Moose on this one. I used to be on the listening end 40 years
ago. We only worked six hours/day. Otherwise we'd have gone nuts.
Chuck Norcutt
Moose wrote:
> John Hermanson wrote:
>
>
>>As I understand 'they' are using a program named 'Carnivore' which scans ALL
>>email EVERWHERE for certain key words.
>>
>>John Hudson wrote:
>>
>> If anyone read James Bamfords' "Puzzle Palace" [ it was a long tome about
>>the NSA ["No Such Agency"!]] in the early 1980s he made it quite clear that
>>Uncle Sam had the capacity to monitor, evesdrop on, and record EVERY phone
>>call within the USA, those that were made within the US and destined
>>elsewhere and those that were entering the country from elsewhere.
>>
>>
>
>
> Lordy there must be a lot of bored people on the other end. Just
> listening to the one end of some long cell phone conversations for a few
> moments leads me to believe that listening to and/or reading all that
> stuff would take hundreds of thousands of agents and they would lose
> thousands to funny farms every month.
>
> Just because they "can", technically, doesn't mean they "can", practically.
>
> How would you like to have tomonitor this and a few hundred other lists
> every day, most or all of them on subjects in which you have no
> interest? Got to be one of the circles of a contemporary hell.
>
> Moose
>
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