From: bakunin-AT-hushmail.com
Date: Sun Oct 10 00:35:19 CDT 1999
Subject: more Echelon stuff


According to http://hackernews.com/ "Jam Echelon Day" might not even have much effect...
>From HackerNews:
"Considering the technology available for document
                          retrieval it is doubtful that the Global Jam Echelon Day
                          will have any impact if the messages only contain
                          keywords. These links indicate that the NSA's (and
                          probably other agencies) information sorting capability
                          (n-gram analysis) is extremely more advanced than
                          simple keyword grabbing. This technology isn't new
                          either it has been available publicly for license since
                          1993. Considering the computing power available to
                          high-level government agencies in conjunction with this
                          document retrieval technology it is doubtful that the
                          plan to jam or overflow the Echelon system will have a
                          large effect. (Can't hurt to try though.) "

They give a couple links that are of interest:

Information Sorting and Retrieval by Language or Topic (NSA)
http://www.nsa.gov:8080/programs/tech/factshts/infosort.html

Method of retrieving documents that concern the same topic (US Patent Office)
http://164.195.100.11/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1='5,418,951'.WKU.&OS=PN/5,418,951&RS=PN/5,418,951
   
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