Analysis Tracking Patterns in Database of Millions of Calls



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Analysis Tracking Patterns in Database of Millions of Calls

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All Things Considered, May 11, 2006 · Tracking and analyzing domestic phone
calls would require pattern-recognition software and intense traffic
analysis, two of the newest tools in the intelligence trade.

Steven M. Bellovin, computer science professor at Columbia University, says
the National Security Agency would have to use such techniques to analyze
the huge databases turned over to the NSA by phone companies.

Robert Siegel talks with Bellovin about the agency's efforts.


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