[1]http://z4.invisionfree.com/NSDraftroom/ar/t8777.htm
   I wrote a little something four years ago for a roleplaying website.
   Doesn't take much creativity to see this is inevitable in a Patriot
   Act-enabled state.

     The NMS has long been denied to exist in the Corporate Confederacy.
     However outside observers and analysts agree on how it functions:
     All citizens are monitored through the following means:
     -Facial recognition of video feed of CCTV cameras in public areas
     and of private security cameras (all private security companies are
     required to submit their feed to the government), identifying an
     individual's location, patterns of movement, and clothing.
     -Citizens are also monitored from the use of transit passes or
     identity checkpoints, which also aides in establishing an
     individual's location or their patterns of movement.
     -Many cities within the Corporate Confederacy have
     multi-story/elevated streets. In order to navigate these streets,
     many citizens buy GPS systems, which inform drivers which streets
     have the fastest traffic flow, and suggest the fastest routes
     possible. Unfortunately this information is cross-correlated by
     using a database from the government. But not too many drivers are
     complaining, happy to receive this "service."
     -Cell phone GPS tracking.
     -Purchasing patterns based upon credit card information. Citizens
     who make cash purchases are also monitored and identified via face
     recognition programs.
     -Internet browsing habits, downloads, emails forum posts, etc.
     -Conversation analysis by computer programs, which analyze the tone
     of how certain words are said, and the frequency of some words are
     said. The conversations monitored are typically from wiretapped
     telephone lines, but may also included bugged residences or offices.
     -Nonintrusive load monitoring, which monitors the devices plugged
     into a power supply, enabling officials to determine activity within
     a home without planting bugs or cameras, which could enable
     officials to determine when it would be safe to secretly plants bugs
     or cameras.
     -Random secret house searches, which result in the documentation of
     belongings and appliances.
     All this data is cataloged in a database and cross-correlated with
     the routines or actions with other possible terrorists or former
     terrorists. For example redflags would be put up if a person spoke
     about the government in a derisive tone, repeatedly visited websites
     which glorify terrorists, went to meet with a suspected member of a
     terrorist group repeatedly, and began to purchase large quantities
     of gasoline and fertilizer. Another example would be that a person
     fingered by an informant as a terrorist leader would be monitored,
     and so would individuals suspected of meeting with that person.
     The NMS was not the result of a concerted project, but was created
     over time as new tools were developed to combat terrorism and
     threats to public safety, and as databases were slowly consolidated.
     The NMS is maintained by an unknown and possibly secret government
     agency.
     Estimated Program Development Costs: $100-275 Billion
     Estimated Maintenace Costs: $40 Billion per annum (for a country
     with more than three and a half billion residents)

   On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 6:46 AM, John Young <[2]jya@pipeline.com> wrote:

     "Horizon: The defenders of anonymity on the internet"
     [3]http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-29032399
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References

   1. http://z4.invisionfree.com/NSDraftroom/ar/t8777.htm
   2. mailto:jya@pipeline.com
   3. http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-29032399
   4. mailto:cryptography@randombit.net
   5. http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography