RE: fwd: Canadian gov't eavesdropping

[Mike Markley <mmarkley@microsoft.com>]

| From: Eli Brandt  <netmail!ebrandt@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
| To: cypherpunks list  <cypherpunks@toad.com>
| Subject: fwd: Canadian gov't eavesdropping
| Date: Tuesday, February 01, 1994 7:26PM
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| > Date:	Tue, 1 Feb 1994 20:21:46 -0500
| [...]
| > HIGH-TECH SNOOP GADGET.  A super-secret branch of the Canadian Security
| > Intelligence Service has awarded three contracts to a Montreal firm to make
| > equipment that can quickly isolate key words and phrases from millions of
| > airborne phone, fax, radio signals and other transmissions. The hardware
| > has the "Orwellian potential to sweep through ... and keep records of all
| > conversations," said one CSIS critic.  (CTV National News, 01/31/94 11:00
| > pm).
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| Dunno how feasible this kind of keyword recognition presently is,
| but here's another reason to encrypt.

I'd be curious to see how they are going to do voice recognition on 
random conversations. Unless I am very sadly out of date you need to 
teach the pattern matcher individual voices.


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|    Eli   ebrandt@jarthur.claremont.edu
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