IP: Echelon updates

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

>From: Joe Faber <Joe.Faber@raremedium.com>
>To: "'Dave Farber'" <farber@cis.upenn.edu>
>Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 10:53:56 -0500
>
>The Register has an interesting article about refinements to Echelon...
>pulls from a Reuters piece.
>
>http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/8/17361.html
>
>Joe


CIA patching ECHELON shortcomings
By: Thomas C Greene in Washington
Posted: 06/03/2001 at 07:47 GMT
A core objection to paranoid rants regarding the US National Security 
Agency (NSA) electronic eavesdropping apparatus called ECHELON is the 
simple observation that spooks trying to use it are literally buried in an 
avalanche of white noise from which it's quite difficult to extract 
anything pertinent.

But now the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), no doubt with some 
assistance and guidance from NSA, is making strides towards cracking that 
little inconvenience.

The CIA's Office of Advanced Information Technology is developing a number 
of data-mining enhancements to make life easy for those who would eavesdrop 
on electronic communications, Reuters reports.

First up is a computer program called Oasis, which automatically converts 
audio signals into conveniently readable, and searchable, text.
  <snip>



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