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Photos and infrared images from satellites have long been used to keep watch on Soviet -- now Russian -- missiles and conventional weaponry. Increasingly, ^ they are being called on to monitor arms-control agreements and guard against proliferation of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons. Such images allowed the U.S. not only to follow each step of North Korea's nuclear-weapons program but to evaluate its new missile, the Nodong 1, as well. With what they proudly call their mensuration -- measuring -- capabilities based on digital infrared transmissions from satellites, the experts can tell how much of a missile is warhead, how much...
...look into a suspect's computer is remote surveillance. Parked just down the block, agents are able to pick up the electromagnetic waves that dance across a suspect's computer screen and convert them back into characters and words on a monitor. They can read everything the suspect is writing. While imaginative, this method is unpopular with law-enforcement authorities because they have to sit and watch the TV screen for weeks or review hours of videotape to see everything a suspect is doing...
Still, a decade after 1984, it's frightening to think of so dramatically enhancing the government's ability to monitor its citizens' activities. A decade from now, might we be wondering, each time we pick up the phone, who's listening...
Last week, FBI director Louis J. Freeh met privately with leading members of Congress to convince them to vote in favor of the proposed legislation, which would afford law enforcement agencies vastly enhanced capabilities to monitor private telephone communications without actually tapping into specific lines...
Freeh denies that that's what the government is after, claiming he merely desires better access to court-approved eavesdropping. "My real objective is to get access to the content of telephone calls," he says. And since rapidly advancing communications technologies make it harder to monitor phone conversations, the new approach is necessary, Freeh says...