Re: movies



at CSE.
[snip]

SIGINT specialists are honing their skills at monitoring digital
information. SIGINT agencies everywhere are increasingly throwing
their surveillance web over the Internet and other data networks
of interest.
[snip]


Mini-recap:

o The countries sharing intelligence: US, UK, Canada, Australia,
New Zealand

o Massive domestic spying by the NSA, using an Orwellian "1984"
technology to search all communications using computers, including
domestic phone calls, via keyword searches.

o Circumvention of domestic spy laws via friendly "foreign" agents

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Wow.


How chilling to think the military has set up
a real-life domestic Orwellian spy apparatus.

Used repeatedly for political purposes.


ECHELON has almost no Military purpose left:
Russia is practically part of NATO now.

We must start dismantling ECHELON before it is too late.


6/3/97: Barnes & Noble informs me his book is no longer
available, and that my order is cancelled.


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BAM-BAM-BAM
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Let's pause to take a look back at the first and still classic expose of NSA.

: The Puzzle Palace
: Inside the National Security Agency,
: America's most secret intelligence organization
: Author James Bamford, 1983 revision, ISBN 0-14-00.6748-5

Page numbers are from the above 1983 release.

Ready?


P171-172: David Kahn, in a transatlantic phone call, reluctantly agreed to
delete a handful of paragraphs dealing with the most sensitive subject of
all: NSA's relationship with its


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