Currently the cell phone voice collection data from intelligence agencies around the world do not work as good as they need too. In Britain for instance British Intelligence logs all cell phone calls. These intercepted conversations are run thru data mining artificial intelligence programs to look for possible communications between Al Queda and local connections or sleeper cells. Many decry this invasion of privacy in the United States, as we explore ways to find needles in haystacks to divert a potential eventuality of an Al Queda attack against the American People. Many believe this is a violation of privacy and also a huge violation of civil rights. Although the President made a good point in an interview the other day when he said; hey if you are talking to Al Queda, well we would sure like to know about it. Indeed. Unfortunately one can trick these systems and watch them work. Get on a cell phone and say words like; President, bomb, missile, nuclear, machine gun, shoot, bullet, fire etc. and you will see the phone go hollow and you will hear an echo. That is how you test the integrity of the system, which seems to be working all the time. It is interesting all this talk about how the NSA is violating the rights of people now, as this has been going on for over 5 decades using the phone lines and other communications. It really isnt news at all. In fact you can read all about it on the Internet on 100s of websites in many different countries; decoders, AT&T, epsilon and all the rest. They collect terabytes of information and have AI software run thru the data. I am intrigued by this system, but also worry it unnecessarily causes costs in dead and BS leads, which costs human man-hours to follow up on at the NSA. Additionally different dialects and in the instance of emails, different variations of spelling and sentence structure changes how it is classified and viewed you see? I have had my cell phone do this a number of times and get bogus emails too. Usually I can tell and sometimes I screw with them, because, well it is fun and I guess it provides a job for some American somewhere, I doubt if they outsource these things. Cell Phone Voice Collection Data and the Protection of the American People and our hard fought civilization will need a National Discussion and of course some re-assurances that the system will continue to remain honest and will not be used to spy on political opponents, corporate business competitors or ex-wives. I believe currently every thing is fine and our Nation is protected and the NSA is doing their job in the best way possible and it is a damn good thing they are. You and your family are safe and that is a good thing. Think on this in 2006. |
