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The Hardware Behind Echelon Revealed

Posted by timothy on from the but-they-already-knew-that dept.

Whispering Bob writes "Techworld has got an interesting article on the technology behind the Echelon spying networks run by the US, UK, Cananda and Australia. Apparently the super storage and analysing technology used in the US is sold by privately owned Texas Memory Systems. It can deal with one trillion floating point operations per second. Now that's some technology."

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  1. This is scary by cinnamon+colbert · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Sunday NewYorkTimes has the always wonderful Frank Rich , talking about how the Bushies have mounted a vast right wing govt attack on the media (e.g., chairman of Viacom, normally liberal sumner redstone, announcing he is for bush after fcc pressure..)
    Impression that Bush/GOP congress turned govt over to lobbyists on writing laws and regs...
    Possible state of emergency after vote fiascos again...
    There really is a vast right wing conspiracy, and this is part of it

  2. Amazing by Pan+T.+Hose · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "Apparently the super storage and analysing technology used in the US is sold by privately owned Texas Memory Systems. It can deal with one trillion floating point operations per second. Now that's some technology."

    Amazing indeed... Since when do you need floating point operations for text matching?!

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    Since "trillion floating point operations per second" seem to have been not nearly powerful enough to spy on us Slashdotters, anyone has a mirror?

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