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for the optical-fiber lines leased by the banks for their
*   "Electronic Funds Transfer System" (EFTS). ALL financial transactions
*   for the banks pass through there via subsidiary company, "Funds
*   Transfers Services Pty Ltd." (FTS)
*
*   All Australian EFT transactions are on record at Fort Meade.


*   "The End of Ordinary Money, Part I", by J. Orlin Grabbe
*   http://www.aci.net/kalliste
*   
*   The most important communications network for international financial
*   market transactions is the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial
*   Telecommunication (SWIFT), a not-for-profit cooperative.
*
*   This system for transferring foreign exchange deposits and loans began
*   actual operation in May 1977 and by 1990 had 1,812 members, and connected
*   3,049 banks and securities industry participants in eight-four countries.
*
*   In 1993 SWIFT began asking users of its messaging system to include a
*   purpose of payment in all messages, as well as payers, payees, and
*   intermediaries. This type of arrangement would allow NSA computers
*   to use keyword monitoring to scan for any names in which they were
*   interested.


!   FBI Director Louis J. Freeh, Senate Judiciary Committee, June 4, 1997
!
!   NOT THAT LONG AGO, NO ONE PERCEIVED THAT TELEPHONE SYSTEMS COULD BECOME
!   UNTAPPABLE, THE NECESSITY FOR STRONG PARTNERSHIPS BETWEEN LOCAL, STATE,
!   FEDERAL AND INTERNATIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT IS MORE URGENT.


*   Electronic Privacy Information Center, http://www.epic.org
*
*   "As a means of espionage, writs of assistance and general warrants
*   are but puny instruments of tyranny and oppressi