That's just silly. Patents are open. If the NSA has any hot technology, it's not going to publish it. No way! Do they think their opposition will respect their patents? Or not use the info for counter measures? Oh, sure!
I think it's far more likely if they have anything patented it's to deny it to commercial discovery and/or as misdirection. On Fri, May 18, 2007 10:53 am, Randall Shimizu wrote: > I am wondering if the NSA is taking out patents to > prevent other comppanies or countries from using this > technlogy. I would not be surprised if IBM has been > conducting secret research in this area > --- Randall Shimizu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> 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. -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
