The NSA has taken out some patents on speech recognition(http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/199911/msg00055.html ). These projects must have been extremely large projects.
--- Rick Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lan Barnes wrote: > > On Fri, May 18, 2007 12:08 am, Randall Shimizu > wrote: > > > >> If the NSA is searching for keywords in telephone > calls then this means > >> that they have a voice recognition cability that > is far more advanced than > >> anything that is commercially available....?? The > only other possibility > >> is that they are monitoring specific phone lines. > This would give them the > >> ability to train the voice software. > >> > >> > > > > If you know any of those key words, I'd appreciate > seeing a list. I need > > to spice up my conversation. I want to get my > money's worth on my taxes. > > > I just did a simple search on Google using 'NSA > Keyword searches' > without the quotes and came up with: > > http://www.aclu.org/safefree/nsaspying/23989res20060131.html > > HOW THE NSA SEARCHES FOR TARGETS > There are a range of techniques that are probably > used by the NSA to > sift through the sea of communications it steals > from the world's cables > and airwaves: > > * *Keywords.* In this longstanding technique, > the agency maintains a > watch list or "dictionary" of key words, > individuals, telephone > numbers and presumably now computer IP > addresses. It uses that > list to pick out potentially relevant > communications from all the > data that it gathers. These keywords are often > provided to the NSA > by other security agencies, and the NSA passes > the resulting > intelligence "take" back to the other agencies > or officials. > According to the law, the NSA must strip out > the names and other > identifying information of Americans captured > inadvertently, a > process called "minimization." (According to > published reports, > those minimization procedures are not being > properly observed.) In > the 1990s, it was revealed that the NSA had > used the word > "Greenpeace" and "Amnesty" (as in the human > rights group Amnesty > International) as keywords as part of its > "Echelon" program (see > Echelon > > <http://www.aclu.org/safefree/nsaspying/23989res20060131.html#echelon>). > > * *Link analysis.* It is believed that another > manner in which > individuals are now being added to the watch > lists is through a > process often called "link analysis." Link > analysis can work like > this: the CIA captures a terrorist's computer > on the battlefield > and finds a list of phone numbers, including > some U.S. numbers. > The NSA puts those numbers on their watch > list. They add the > people that are called from those numbers to > their list. They > could then in turn add the people called from > those numbers to > their list. How far they carry that process > and what standards if > any govern the process is unknown. > * *Other screening techniques.* There may be > other techniques that > the NSA could be using to pluck out potential > targets. One example > is voice pattern analysis, in which computers > listen for the sound > of, say, Osama Bin Laden's voice. No one knows > how accurate the > NSA's computers may be at such tasks, but if > commercial attempts > at analogous activities such as face > recognition are any guide, > they would also be likely to generate enormous > numbers of false hits. > > http://www.nsawatch.org/networks.html > > *United States - Oasis & Fluent > <http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57318-2001Mar25.html> > *United States intelligence officials have developed > two programs which > many experts believe may be used to enhance > ECHELON's capabilities. > <http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/8/17361.html> > One of these > programs, Oasis, automatically creates > machine-readable transcripts from > television and audio broadcasts. Reports indicate > that Oasis can also > distinguish individual speakers and detect personal > characteristics > (such as gender) then denote these characteristics > in the transcripts it > creates. The other program, FLUENT, allows > English-language keyword > searches of non-English materials. This data mining > tool not only finds > pertinent documents, but also translates them, > although the number of > languages that can currently be translated is > apparently limited > (Russian, Chinese, Portuguese, Serbo-Croatian, > Korean and Ukrainian). In > addition, FLUENT displays the frequency with which a > given word is used > in a document and can handle alternate search term > spellings. > > I haven't found any specific words or terms beyond > the obvious but you > would expect them to change rapidly. I should > imagine that anyone > discussing current news events would be suspect > given that many if not > most Americans do not read newspapers or follow what > is going on except > for Paris Hilton, et al. > > I am sure that Neil Schneider is on their 'watch' > list. > > Cheers! > > Rick > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > -- > [email protected] > http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list > -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
