Hints and speculations about the true nature and capabilities of these "all ears" spacecraft have reached folkloric proportions. Some reports suggest that cell phone traffic, ground line chats and faxes, telexes and satellite telecommunications links, as well as Internet emails . . .
Hints and speculations about the true nature and capabilities of these "all ears" spacecraft have reached folkloric proportions. Some reports suggest that cell phone traffic, ground line chats and faxes, telexes and satellite telecommunications links, as well as Internet emails are intercepted around the planet. Once electronically gobbled up, the information is sifted by supercomputers loaded with souped-up software to flag keywords of special interest to a network of must-know-it-all intelligence communities.

This worldwide chunky-style data interception is purportedly run by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), under the rubric of Project Echelon. Sister intelligence agencies in the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and other like-minded governments or organizations are apparently in cahoots with the United States in operating this super-secret network of ground, airborne, and satellite gear.

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