Re: NSA vacuuming down Internet traffic
At 11:07 AM 1/22/96 -0600, Rick Smith wrote:
My first job, twenty years ago, involved a prototype speech recognition system under contract for Rome Air Development Center (a traditional cover for TLA research). The machine was supposed to go beep whenever a specified word or phrase was heard over the input voice stream. We joked about testing for the term "Russian Spy" but settled on looking for "Kissinger" instead. That let us run tests by listening to news broadcasts of the time. We built custom boards with Schottky TTL and a blazing fast 120ns cycle time. Times change, eh?
Rick. smith@sctc.com secure computing corporation
Don't tell me, let me guess: 20 years ago, if you had told anyone about this project, you would have had to kill them. Now, 20 years later, after a few levels of re-classifications and de-classifications, all you have to do is to sneer in our general direction. <G>
...listening for Kissinger..
Don't tell me, let me guess: 20 years ago, if you had told anyone about this project, you would have had to kill them. Now, 20 years later, after a few levels of re-classifications and de-classifications, all you have to do is to sneer in our general direction. <G>
Not. It wasn't a classified project. It was upstairs from Woolworth's in Central Square, ferheavens sake. SCIFs would have annoyed the landlord, and presented interesting "challenges" given the pasteboard construction. We didn't even have any of those clunky file cabinets for Keeping Secrets Safe. We just amused ourselves with such speculation, since this was clearly a technology that excited interest in certain quarters. Rick.
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