| From: Eli Brandt <netmail!ebrandt@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> | To: cypherpunks list <cypherpunks@toad.com> | Subject: fwd: Canadian gov't eavesdropping | Date: Tuesday, February 01, 1994 7:26PM | | Received: from relay2.UU.NET by netmail.microsoft.com with SMTP (5.65/25-eef) | id AA07450; Tue, 1 Feb 94 19:59:09 -0800 | Received: from toad.com by relay2.UU.NET with SMTP | (5.61/UUNET-internet-primary) id AAwbln22133; Tue, 1 Feb 94 22:55:33 -0500 | Received: by toad.com id AA05602; Tue, 1 Feb 94 19:30:49 PST | Received: by toad.com id AA05533; Tue, 1 Feb 94 19:26:28 PST | Return-Path: <ebrandt@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> | Received: from jarthur.Claremont.EDU ([134.173.42.1]) by | toad.com id AA05527; Tue, 1 Feb 94 19:26:21 PST | Message-Id: <9402020326.AA05527@toad.com> | In-Reply-To: <94Feb1.201622est.83288(2)@ivory.educom.edu>; | from "E-D-U-P-A-G-E" at Feb 1, 94 8:21 pm | X-Arcane-Subliminal-Header: fooquayleglorkpsilocybinrkbapinkyogsothothquux | X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11] | | > Date: Tue, 1 Feb 1994 20:21:46 -0500 | [...] | > HIGH-TECH SNOOP GADGET. A super-secret branch of the Canadian Security | > Intelligence Service has awarded three contracts to a Montreal firm to make | > equipment that can quickly isolate key words and phrases from millions of | > airborne phone, fax, radio signals and other transmissions. The hardware | > has the "Orwellian potential to sweep through ... and keep records of all | > conversations," said one CSIS critic. (CTV National News, 01/31/94 11:00 | > pm). | | Dunno how feasible this kind of keyword recognition presently is, | but here's another reason to encrypt. I'd be curious to see how they are going to do voice recognition on random conversations. Unless I am very sadly out of date you need to teach the pattern matcher individual voices. | | > EDUPAGE. To subscribe to Edupage send e-mail to listproc@educom.edu, | > containing the following text: SUB EDUPAGE yourfirstname yourlastname. To | | Eli ebrandt@jarthur.claremont.edu | | -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Mike Markley || The opinions here do not represent the mmarkley@microsoft.com || opinions of my employer. Attempts to || associate the two are pointless. "I want to look at life, In the available light" - Neil Peart -