dave@mimsy.UUCP (02/15/87)
Yes, rather than discuss policy of application, and a whole
lot of unsubstantiated assumptions, let's discuss the technical
details of effective implementation of this supposed activity.
I consulted on a project for Western Union some time ago. The
project imagined a central facility which profiled 12 news wire
feeds for 100,000 WU customers each allowed 100 profiler keywords.
We "what if'd" the problem, solution, and cost.
Does anybody KNOW how many telephone circuits cross U.S. borders?
Does anybody KNOW how much data traffic crosses U.S. borders
on these circuits?
Does anybody KNOW what kind of computational power is required
to accompliish the supposed activity?
The fundamental problem with the application of sci.crypt
content to real-world problems (apart from ignorance and flaming
bs) is that the content is proffered by bright people with academic
awareness of theoretic problems. The real-world problems, it is
my estimation, are actually very much different from the theoretic
ones discussed here.
So, let's define the problem of this supposed keyword scanning
activity and analyse its feasibility and implementation.
Dave Stoffel
Amber Research Group, Inc.