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   situations by allies.   
      
   Under development is even more sophisticated "topic recognition" which   
   can home in on guarded conversations that avoid potential trigger words.   
      
   Nothing and no one is exempt.   
      
   For example, you are talking on the telephone to a friend discussing   
   your son's school play. "Boy," you say sadly, "Bobby really bombed last   
   night," or perhaps you use the word "assassination" or "sabotage" or any   
   one of the key words the computer has been told to flag.   
      
   A hard copy of your conversation is produced, passed to the appropriate   
   section (in this case terrorism), and probably ends up in the garbage.   
      
   But perhaps the conversation is not so clear-cut or the analyst has poor   
   judgement. Then your name is permanently filed under "possible terrorist".   
   Weeks or even years later, you have a similar conversation and use the   
   same words; the computer filters it out again. Since this is your second   
   time, your name moves from the "possible" to the "probable" file.   
      
   Sound absurd? Not at all; it actually happened while I was at CSE.   
   [snip]   
      
   SIGINT specialists are honing their skills at monitoring digital   
   information. SIGINT agencies everywhere are increasingly throwing   
   their surveillance web over the Internet and other data networks   
   of interest.   
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   Mini-recap:   
      
       o The countries sharing intelligence: US, UK, Canada, Australia,   
         New Zealand   
      
       o Massive domestic spying by the NSA, using a   
      
      
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