You are correct. It's called Echelon. There are some staellite stations in England and Austalia and I'm sure others as well. It's run by the NSA. wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > It is also rumored that every cross-country electronic conversation anyone > make is been recorded in a condensed form some where in the US. > Conversations like telephone calls, Fax, emails, etc is been recorded and > 'diagnosed' for some specific information, and could be reproduced and > expanded where necessary. > > With my knowledge of how Intrusion detection works in the Swicth blade > (IDSM), where the blade sits as a line card in the backplane of the Catalyst > 6000 switch, it does not interfere with the traffic going through the Switch > backplane but these traffics are copied to its buffer for examination, it > triggers an alarm and send a detail message to the director interface when > it discover a comparison between at least one of its stored signatures and > the packet been examined, I kind of believe that sniffing the whole internet > is VERY possible and it cannot be just rumors. > > Again, how secure is the internet??? To me it is just a round-robin stuff. > Someone implemented all the encryption technology we have seen so far and > the key to decrypt then are not hiden far away in heaven, they are still > with us humans. > > My 0.2 cent > Regards. > Oletu > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Steven A. Ridder > To: > Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 4:48 PM > Subject: Re: Re: China/Cisco connection [7:35946] > > > > It's a rumor. > > wrote in message > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > > I only agree partially. On the other hand, US government put censorship > on > > > the whole Internet, if anyone could remember what happened during US > > bombing > > > of the Serbs. The news said that a virus sent NATO secrets to an ICQ > site, > > > which was quickly deleted by an USA robot, and the robot notified > > government > > > angecies of the discovery and the results. The same news claimed that > the > > > whole Internet is been checked every 10 minutes by various government > > > programs. From TV, FRI (or CIA) experts publicly demostrated how they > > could > > > trace a message from one end of the world to another end of the world. > > There > > > was another news said that US government put on filters on Internet to > > > search keywords, such as weapon. > > > > > > Since I am too old to be naive, I wonder what else would be on the > filter > > > list, or inside the robot programs. > > > > > > Let's hope whoever has the power to control information on Internet only > > do > > > it for legitimate purpose. But, I know that I asked for too much. > > > > > > Tony > > > > > > > > > > > > "Dominick Marino" wrote: > > > > > > >I agree with Joseph Brunner. > > > > > > > >To compare the two is absurd! The Chinese will use the technology to > > > >suppress the truth from becoming known to the people ( peasants to the > > > >elite). It is also a good way to find the subversives and eliminate > > them. > > > > > > > >As for the US government monitoring the traffic, I doubt that they plan > > on > > > >killing anyone for their selection of web sites. > > > > > > > >Unless they are terrorists, then, if they want, I will supply the > bullets > > > >myself. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >Dom Marino > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >""B.J. Wilson"" wrote in message > > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > > >> An interesting article I came across this morning: > > > >> > > > >> > > > > > > >http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/000/922dgmtd. > > a > > > >> sp > > > >> > > > >> Comments? > > > -- > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________________________ > > > Your favorite stores, helpful shopping tools and great gift ideas. > > > Experience the convenience of buying online with Shop@Netscape! > > > http://shopnow.netscape.com/ > > > > > > Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at > > > http://webmail.netscape.com/ > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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