Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!unido!tub!actisb!federico
From: federico@actisb.UUCP (Federico Heinz)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re:  long-distance monitoring
Message-ID: <204@actisb.UUCP>
Date: 17 Apr 88 14:59:09 GMT
References: <8804141418.AA02735@lll-crg.llnl.gov>
Reply-To: federico@actisb.UUCP (Federico Heinz)
Organization: Actis in Berlin GmbH, W. Germany
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Summary: I've read about it too

In article <8804141418.AA02735@lll-crg.llnl.gov> bowles@LLL-CRG.LLNL.GOV (Jeff Bowles) writes:
> For example, if there's a code word for
>"particular type of nuclear sub" and it keeps being mentioned in a call to
>Moscow, well, that's interesting to the NSA.

 Yeah. Particularly if the code word is "How's uncle Tom?". I also read
about this kind of monitoring, extended also to radio broadcasts, but I
can't recall the source. I think it was BYTE magazine in a "speech
processing" issue, but I'm not sure about it. I don't know how effective
this kind of procedure might be. But I am worried about the erroneous
"hits" such a system can produce, and the possible consequences for the
people involved.


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