I’ll agree that this is no surprise and it’s been going on for at least a decade.
Here’s a story from about 8 years ago well before the events of 9/11 …
Even down here in NZ we have a “listening post” owned and operated by the US government to process voice and email data – its fairly well known and gets the occasional loopy protestor.
I tested this once (after reading an article in a local paper ) by sending an email between two of my private addresses that should not have been visable to anyone.
I used all the keywords – president – assasinate – bomb – bush – Tuesday (etc) in order to guarantee some sort of response … and at the end of the message offered my IT services on a consultancy basis if they were required.
:stirpot:
Within 3 hours of sending it to my small recipiant site (http://www.thearmsfc.com – a website about a pub football team) I got 30 hits from a US government URL.
Coincidence? Maybe. But I’ve never seen traffic like that there again …
:lookaroun
Oh – I never got a job offer though … B@st@rds !!
:wink-wink