NSA line eater

(messaging, tool)The National Security Agency trawlingprogram sometimes assumed to be reading the net for the USGovernment's spooks. Most hackers describe it as a mythicalbeast, but some believe it actually exists, more aren't sure,and many believe in acting as though it exists just in case.Some netters put loaded phrases like "KGB", "Uzi", "nuclearmaterials", "Palestine", "cocaine", and "assassination" intheir sig blocks to confuse and overload the creature. TheGNU version of Emacs actually has a command that randomlyinserts a bunch of insidious anarcho-verbiage into your editedtext.

There is a mainstream variant of this myth involving a "TrunkLine Monitor", which supposedly used speech recognition toextract words from telephone trunks. This one was making therounds in the late 1970s, spread by people who had no idea ofthen-current technology or the storage, signal-processing,or speech recognition needs of such a project. On the basisof mass-storage costs alone it would have been cheaper to hire50 high-school students and just let them listen in.Speech-recognition technology can't do this job even now(1993), and almost certainly won't in this millennium, either.

The peak of silliness came with a letter to an alternativepaper in New Haven, Connecticut, laying out the factoids ofthis Big Brotherly affair. The letter writer then revealedhis actual agenda by offering - at an amazing low price, justthis once, we take VISA and MasterCard - a scramblerguaranteed to daunt the Trunk Trawler and presumably allowingthe would-be Baader-Meinhof gangs of the world to get on withtheir business.

单词	nsa line eater
释义	NSA line eater NSA line eater (messaging, tool)The National Security Agency trawlingprogram sometimes assumed to be reading the net for the USGovernment's spooks. Most hackers describe it as a mythicalbeast, but some believe it actually exists, more aren't sure,and many believe in acting as though it exists just in case.Some netters put loaded phrases like "KGB", "Uzi", "nuclearmaterials", "Palestine", "cocaine", and "assassination" intheir sig blocks to confuse and overload the creature. TheGNU version of Emacs actually has a command that randomlyinserts a bunch of insidious anarcho-verbiage into your editedtext. There is a mainstream variant of this myth involving a "TrunkLine Monitor", which supposedly used speech recognition toextract words from telephone trunks. This one was making therounds in the late 1970s, spread by people who had no idea ofthen-current technology or the storage, signal-processing,or speech recognition needs of such a project. On the basisof mass-storage costs alone it would have been cheaper to hire50 high-school students and just let them listen in.Speech-recognition technology can't do this job even now(1993), and almost certainly won't in this millennium, either. The peak of silliness came with a letter to an alternativepaper in New Haven, Connecticut, laying out the factoids ofthis Big Brotherly affair. The letter writer then revealedhis actual agenda by offering - at an amazing low price, justthis once, we take VISA and MasterCard - a scramblerguaranteed to daunt the Trunk Trawler and presumably allowingthe would-be Baader-Meinhof gangs of the world to get on withtheir business.
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