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Originally posted by AlienS
it might be a cool project in the research forum to try to find out whats so important about every one of those words. if everybody does a few, we'll be done in no time at all.
[Edited on 18-9-2003 by AlienS]
It sounds like science fiction, but it's true.
Two of the chief protagonists - Britain and America - officially deny its existence. But the BBC has confirmation from the Australian Government that such a network really does exist and politicians on both sides of the Atlantic are calling for an inquiry.
Originally posted by mapsurfer_
What I wonder about is how echelon/carnivore and the other systems actually capture the data... I mean the internet does not all funnel into a central location. There are millions of T1/T3/Cable/DSL lines connecting like a spider webs. So how does NSA position its sniffer to capture this data? Seem like the data would have to traverse a certain path before they could recognize it.