From toad.com!cypherpunks-request Thu Jun 24 15:34:07 1993 Return-Path: <karn@qualcomm.com> Date: Thu, 24 Jun 93 15:32:54 -0700 From: karn@qualcomm.com (Phil Karn) Message-Id: <9306242232.AA08245@servo> To: cypherpunks@toad.com, pcw@access.digex.net Subject: Re: Karn's note... I tend to doubt that the spooks have voice recognition technology in regular widespread use, at least not the kind of ultra sophisticated stuff that AI types seem to dream about. It's possible that they use ln. Much Deleted... \ Hi Phil... All the reports I have seen on the widespread phone tapping and voice recognition by the NSA allegedly was in reference to Operation HARVEST According to private estimates immense intel value results even if the recog phase gets 15-20% accuracy on most? speakers... for phrases such as Spook, espionage,drugs etc... Most of the references I saw to HARVEST were published by the Bill of Rights foundation in various of their books and phamplets and reports from the Church Subcommittee hearings on intelligence activities during the earlier abuses of COINTELPRO, with a few references in "The Puzzle Palace" by Cliff Bamford. I also saw some refeneces about 5 years ago in comp.dcom.telecom... as to these kind of operations. Do they really do it??? hmm dont know but I am not taking any chances!! :) Phil