CIA Researching Automated IRC Spying
brian-slashdotnews at hyperreal.org
brian-slashdotnews at hyperreal.org
Wed Nov 24 15:01:24 PST 2004
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.
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p=click&page=%2farticle%2epl
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