If you're phonecalls are being monitored, you'll probably never notice. Your telephone wire isn't tapped into anymore since most calls are handled
digitally now. The government just has to make a copy of the data or analyze it in realtime.
To get an idea of what sorts of intercept capabilities exist at the level of the phone network, look over this:
www.cyber-rights.org...
Many people have argued that a mass intercept program is impractical because of data throughput and storage requirements. I don't know if these
arguments take into account the liklihood that intelligence agencies have technologies like quantum computers and holographic data storage at their
disposal:
superconductorweek.com...
Moreover, most analyses of computing power are based on numerical calculations. In actuality, it's somewhat arbitrary to treat computers as fancy
calculators. They're logic machines just as much as they're arithmetic machines. I imagine there's a whole world of novel computing strategies
out there:
mathworld.wolfram.com...
[edit on 27-10-2007 by America Jones]
