On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Phillip H. Zakas wrote:
my specific comment is simply that I don't believe that either the competency or the computing power necessary to watch every financial transaction ($16T/day), fax, e-mail, phone call, ssl connection, etc. exists in the areas we might think it exists. whereas i do believe it's feasible to track traffic to/from servers (and other destinations/data origins).
It takes no significant portion of the computing power of the world to execute these transactions, asking them to dump to something like FINCEN is trivial. The amount ($16T/day) is irrelevant. The exchanges aren't done a penny at a time... The reality is that the US Gov. (and probably most other western powers) has the resources to track each and every eft or computerized data transfer for each transaction each day. They've got the computing power left over to then analyze it for traffic analysis. ____________________________________________________________________ Before a larger group can see the virtue of an idea, a smaller group must first understand it. "Stranger Suns" George Zebrowski The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage@ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------