Reply #3: Thanks for the pointer.

[gulliver]

I never bothered reading up on TIA, and the Echelon stuff struck me as too James Bond-ish. So that's what it is, eh?

I don't think people realize that the same technology used in their anti-spam e-mail filter or the automated voice systems they talk to can be used to track them and categorize them with increasingly scary efficiency.

How would a Bush supporter feel about the government being able to categorize gun collectors based on phone conversations with an overseas dealer? We should be telling people what Bush might really have done -- in very simple language.