Link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/24/2140209 Posted by: timothy, on 2004-11-24 21:58:00 from the will-u-be-my-friend-lol-j/k dept. Iphtashu Fitz writes "CNet News is reporting that the CIA has been [1]quietly investing in research programs to automatically monitor Internet chat rooms. In a two year agreement with the [2]National Science Foundation, CIA officials were involved with the selection of recipients for research grants to develop automated chat room monitors. Researchers at [3]Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute received $157,673 from the CIA and NSF for their proposal of 'a system to be deployed in the background of any chat room as a silent listener for eavesdropping ... The proposed system could aid the intelligence community to discover hidden communities and communication patterns in chat rooms without human intervention.' How soon until all IM conversations are monitored by [4]Big Brother? The [5]abstract of the proposal is available on the NFS website." [6]Click Here References 1. http://news.com.com/2100-7348_3-5466140.html 2. http://www.nsf.gov/ 3. http://www.rpi.edu/ 4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Brother_(1984) 5. http://nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=0442154 6. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5671&alloc_id=12342&site_id=1&request_id=2995024&o p=click&page=%2farticle%2epl ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07078, 11.61144 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE http://moleculardevices.org http://nanomachines.net [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]