Re: $400 million network upgrade for the Pentagon

[Brad Knowles]

At 8:36 PM -0700 2002/08/14, Scott Granados wrote:

>                                                          Can the nsa for
>  example listen in somehow to  eering points or other such common areas
>  and observe things that interest them?
	Yup.  Google for "ECHELON" and read the lengthy report that was 
prepared for the government of the European Union.

>                                       I know the answer in the voice
>  network is yes but that's technically easier.  On the ip network that
>  would seem to be m uch more difficult.
	Not for the NSA.  Indeed, voice has to be converted to data in 
order to go through the search algorithms, so it's actually a lot 
easier to just search data that doesn't have to first be converted.

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