🚀 go-pugleaf

is produced, passed to the appropriate
section (in this case terrorism), and probably ends up in the garbage.

But perhaps the conversation is not so clear-cut or the analyst has poor
judgement. Then your name is permanently filed under "possible terrorist".
Weeks or even years later, you have a similar conversation and use the
same words; the computer filters it out again. Since this is your second
time, your name moves from the "possible" to the "probable" file.

Sound absurd? Not at all; it actually happened while I was at CSE.
[snip]

SIGINT specialists are honing their skills at monitoring digital
information. SIGINT agencies everywhere are increasingly throwing
their surveillance web over the Internet and other data networks
of interest.
[snip]


Mini-recap:

    o The countries sharing intelligence: US, UK, Canada, Australia,
      New Zealand

    o Massive domestic spying by the NSA, using an Orwellian "1984"
      technology to search all communications using computers, including
      domestic phone calls, via keyword searches.

    o Circumvention of domestic spy laws via friendly "foreign" agents

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  Wow.


  How chilling to think the military has set up
  a real-life domestic Orwellian spy apparatus.

  Used repeatedly for political purposes.


  ECHELON has almost no Military purpose left:
  Russia is practically part of NATO now.

  We must start dismantling ECHELON before it is too late.


  6/3/97: Barnes & Noble inf