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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 Investig