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We still do not know if they intend to do it, but it is becoming increasingly clear that if they want to, they can. The major cost of a wiretap is labor. As software designed to let people dictate to their computers gets better, that someone can be a computer converting conversation to text, searching the text for key words or phrases, and reporting the occasional hit to a human being. Computers work cheap.

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[Tue Oct 10 11:12:00 PDT 2006-282] John Gilmore (NOSPAMgnu@daviddfriedman.toad.com.NOSPAM):
We now know that not only they intended to do it -- but they have done it one step better by having NSA apply its formerly foreign targeted vacuum-cleaner to United States citizens wholesale. And they've done it with the active help of telephone and Internet companies, without warrants, without judicial oversight at all. Besides doing their best to strangle privacy and anonymity technologies, they have deliberately built a surveillance infrastructure to rival the Stasi's. But we live in the free-est country in the world, just like all the rest tell their citizens...

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