[geeks] This bogles my mind

[Joshua D. Boyd]

Did you ever hear about how they got pgp to europe legally?  

The printed the enitire source code and bound it as a book.  There are no
export restrictions on books.  Once in europe, the book was then OCRed and
compiled.

--
Joshua Boyd

On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Michael S. Schiller wrote:

> Well, somebody I know was contacted by the NSA due to using pgp from europe to
> send email back to this country, so I'd say that their monitoring of email was
> definitely being done. :)
> 
> -Mike
> 
> ward at zilla.nu wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 12:20:04PM -0400, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:
> >
> > > When I worked for a pharmaceutical company at a manufactoring plant, I
> > > never heard anything about a background check being done.  And I had free
> > > access to all the production lines, etc.
> >
> > It was a legal requirement of some sort when I was working there, but I
> > had access to a lot of stuff despite just being the computer ops
> > manager.  General Generics / PDQ Wholesale was the distributor.
> >
> > > I'd be interested in seeing confirmation of the phones being monitored and
> > > the email read by people other than my ISPs employees.
> >
> > The NSA has a policy of monitoring international faxes and emails.
> > Whether or not they really do it, I couldn't confirm.  Echelon is an
> > NSA/GCHQ project for international communication monitoring, but on several
> > occasions, it has been reportedly used on domestic calls (illegally).
> > The House did some poking around in 1999/2000 (particularly Robert
> > Barr), but they don't have much jurisdiction over them.  The Foreign
> > Intelligence Authorization Act for 2000 (HR 1555) didn't include nearly
> > as much about it as originally planned, but it does make it clear that
> > the National Reconnaissance Office will be reviewed and monitored.
> >
> > As far as the semantic recognition, check into Semantic Forests.
> >
> > Henderson, G.D., Schone, P., Crystal, T.H., Text Retrieval via Semantic
> > Forests: TREC7, Proc. TREC-7, Nov. 1998.
> >
> > The TREC Spoken Document Retrieval Track: A Success Story - John S.
> > Garofolo, Cedric.. (2000)
> >
> > Reagen
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