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Old Nov 9, 2005, 09:56 pm   #15 (permalink) (top)
Scribbler1
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What you need is a system to analyze email, forum posts, blogs, VOiP, etc..and "crunch the numbers" of all the communication generated and flag "suspicious" communications that might have otherwise been lost, or seemingly unrelated.

The point is, you don't need to catch signals out of the air, and decrypt them on the fly. PGP is secure, but doesn't garuntee security. It's not how you break the encyption, but what security doesn't exist to break. The ability to read anything before it's encrypted makes encryption irrelvant. This is exactly the reason you can't walk up to a vending machine, and buys stuff with your cellphone.
I believe they do that in Japan, but I get your point. I think all this is the classic "trial balloon" to see what they can slip under the radar.
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