I used to read Pop Mech, at least for about 30 years.... over the years they
ran these articles. I do remember them talking about the same system back in
the early 90's.

as for the how it works thing, IIRC, it was on one of those 60 minutes type
shows. The General was bragging about how their facility had more super
computers than the rest of the planet combined, but they do not spy on the
people. they had some huge acreage of computers, but they do not spy on the
people, that they blah-blah-blah, but do not spy on the people. I think he said
that they do not spy on the people so much that you just KNEW he was trying to
drum the idea into the heads of the brain dead.

Dave




--- In Electronics_101@yahoogroups.com, jong kung <jongkung01@...> wrote:
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> > http://www.popularm echanics. com/technology/ military_ law/1281281. html
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> > they did an unofficial test. called a couple people long distance and
> > discussed things using some of the code words. after some time, they got
> > visits from men in black and little ear pieces.
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> No. I think the article ONLY said they are testing and will report back IF
they get visit from men in black.
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> > the technology is already in place. The NSA has had official 'how it works'
> > TV shows with some general as the spokesman.
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> That is very unlikely.  NSA don't even like to acknowledge their own existence
- let along they kinds of programs they run / don't run.  It would be
interesting if you can find the link to this NSA's "how it works" info.
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> > Back in 2001, they said that every phone call, every cell phone call was run
> > thru the system. Popular mechanics did a similar report back in 1990-91 and
> > said the same thing.
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> EVERY call - back in 1990 ??? !!! 
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> There's few line in Sun Tsu's "The Art of War" that goes like this:
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> All warfare is the based on deception.
> When your army is weak, appear strong.
> When your army is strong, appear weak.
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> I mention this because back when I senior in college I worked for a city
agency.  I knew the kind of data we kept on DB per city resident.  Then I read
an article that IRS had the capability to track and verify every data on EVERY
tax return.  But Circa 1985, I knew that was highly unlike with given
technology.
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> ****  So they were weak but playing strong.
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> Then just few years ago, I read another article that IRS can't track nor
verify most of the data due to lack of technology (which contradicts their other
statement). But I knew that storage capacity has now advanced to a point that is
actually easy and computing power is now also powerful enough that is possible. 
Also e-filing making this even easier.
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> ****  So they were strong but playing weak.
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> So paper file your taxes !!!   :-)
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> Jong
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> P.S.  Preferably file in hand writing.  :-)
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