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From: sbrunnoc@eagle.ulowell.edu (Sean Brunnock)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: long-distance monitoring
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Date: 16 Apr 88 19:39:51 GMT
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In article <8804151130.aa03631@note.nsf.gov> fbaube@NOTE.NSF.GOV (Fred Baube) writes:
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>Bamford also says that the NSA tries to stay 5 years ahead of the
>state of the art. The "state of the art" is that machines are
>very close to recognizing (and so transcribing) connected speech,
>or at least keywords.

   Are the CIA and the NSA practically one organization? I have seen 
many job ads for computer science graduates by the CIA. They boast 
about their acres of state of the art computer systems and such, but
I can't remember seeing job ads from the NSA. 

  Also, who makes the stuff for NSA? By machines are you referring to
hardware or software?


       Sean Brunnock
       University of Lowell
       sbrunnoc@eagle.cs.ulowell.edu