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intention of simply
*   trying to transfer its current surveillance capabilities into the
*   digital era.
*   
*   And the Cellular Telephone Industry Association said the FBI wanted to
*   monitor 103,190 cellular calls simultaneously nationwide.
*   
*   Lawyers for AT&T Wireless Services said, "The numbers alone are astounding."
*   
*   "This is kind of scary," said Tom Wheeler, CTIA president. "What does
*   the FBI know about our future that we don't?"

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You cannot assign people one-to-one to control everyone in a society.
But you can control society in a HIGHLY effective way using cybernetics,
and do so COST EFFECTIVELY.

That's one of the things CALEA is about, cost effectiveness of maintaining
the spying infrastructure when there are so many companies, new technologies,
so many different data formats.

I wrote 6502 assembler code for an SMDR unit (Station Message Detail
Recording), which is a computer that monitors phone call logs and attaches to
a PBX within a company and can generate long-distance expense reports by
department, person, etc. We had to write a different program interface for
every damn PBX manufacturer. The data format was different for each.

NSA's spying operations are so massive and all encompassing, and the
maintenance burden for interfacing to all the latest equipment now so high,
that they have had to come out in the open and lie lie lie to get CALEA.

We need CALEA to prevent crime and catch terrorists like a hole in the head.


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At the same time Stafford Beer was trying to get a grip on the Chilean
economy, the U.S. was trying to destroy it.

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