& The Creeping Police State
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o Louis Freeh
o National ID Card
o Worldwide Banking and Phone Monitoring
o Cybernetic Control of Society
o Conclusions
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ECHELON is NSA's world-wide surveillance network and associated software.
DICTIONARY - Keyword searching with exclusion logic software.
ORATORY - Speech recognition. Think of it as speech-to-text software.
Subject to DICTIONARY searches.
CALEA - A 1994 law ("Communications Assistance to Law Enforcement Act")
to force a massive reworking of the U.S. telephone infra-
structure so that the government can intrinsically wiretap it.
Also called the FBI Digital Telephony Act. It is a domestic
extension of ECHELON.
GAK - Government Access [to cryptographic] Keys. Any cryptography
product with GAK has been compromised so the government can
read it.
SIGINT - Signals Intelligence = NSA = electronic snooping
Key Recovery - See GAK.
C-SPAN - Two cable channels dedicated to broadcasting both houses of
Congress and other U.S. governmental functions.
DEA - U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration
DIA - U.S. Pentagon Defense Intelligence Agency
DIA - U.S. Drug Interdiction Agency (older)
FBI - U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation
BATF - U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms
UKUSA - pronounced 'you-koo-za' - a secret wartime treaty that says
member nations can spy on each others population without
warrants or limits, and that this can be shared with the
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