Word: interceptive
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...ensuing debate -- much of which took place over the Net -- government officials maintained that they needed Clipper to be able to intercept and decipher messages from mobsters, drug dealers and terrorists. Not so, claim critics. "Clipper is not about child molesters or the Mafia but about the Internal Revenue Service," argues Bruce Fancher, proprietor of a New York City Internet service provider called Mindvox. "Clipper just doesn't make sense any other way." As more and more commerce takes place on the Internet, contends Fancher, the IRS is going to need a surefire way to track the flow of cyberbucks...
...would do so if they knew this clause was present, we’ve already established that most users almost certainly haven’t read the terms of service to begin with. It’s possible to encrypt AIM conversations so that AOL can’t intercept them, but to do so requires both parties to commit and requires a certain level of technological proficiency which the typical AIM user doesn’t possess...
...economic leadership. What he doesn't see is the conspiracy that will lead to his own professional disgrace. The other fixture is Watanabe, the bar's introverted 19-year-old cook. He lives inside a fantasy in which he has been endowed with the ability to see through walls, intercept thoughts, and even read bodily functions - powers he knows will be needed to save Mary from danger. "Mary impregnates the air with oxytocin, a hormone conducive to trust and uterine contraction," he observes as she chats with Katya, a sinister colleague. "The 2 parts per 17 million diffusion of this...
...where it could recognize and filter speech to this degree. However, the UK/USA alliance—a joint intelligence operation including the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, whose existence has yet to be confirmed or denied by member states—does indeed have the capacity to intercept phone calls, faxes, e-mails, and almost all imaginable forms of electronic communication. This interception is called “signals intelligence” or “sigint” for short, and as Keefe’s book reveals, the activities of the U.S. intelligence community make...
...these missiles are grim. Equally ominous, Goss said, intelligence shows that North Korea is seeking to raise hard currency by peddling its missile technology to new clients beyond Iran. To blunt that effort, U.S. officials say, the CIA and other U.S. agencies are redoubling their efforts to track and intercept North Korean shipments and covert communications about advanced missile technologies. --By Elaine Shannon