Related to this subject: What do you know of ECHELON Kmf? Is it a conspiracy theory or an actually implemented concept? Somebody posted it in one of the [intel] tagged documents, maybe yourself or QTC. Here are some quotes from that document (it's called "We have the technology to stop child pornography" I think):QuoteIn 1971 a system known as ECHELON was established by the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. The purpose of ECHELON was and still is today, to monitor and intercept global communications for the purpose of national security interests between the five countries. Using supercomputers and skilled intelligence analysts, the system monitors 3 billion communications daily including telephone calls, e-mail messages, Internet downloads, satellite transmissions, video transmissions and several other communications modalities. Regardless of whether the communication is sent by radio waves, cable, fibre of infrared; ECHELON has the capability to "listen in". The system monitors all of the world's communications indiscriminately and then filters out or selects specific transmissions based on keyword phrases, digital signatures, digital image values and other preprogrammed criteria using a combination of artificial intelligence, fuzzy logic and the power of supercomputers.It is not surprising then, that ECHELON routinely monitors 90% of all the world's Internet traffic. ECHELON is the largest signals intelligence (SIGINT) system in the world. In addition, there are smaller, national systems of similar capability operated in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the European Union, Russia, China, Germany, Israel, France and India.The United States refuses to officially, publicly acknowledge that ECHELON exists, while the other four countries involved in the system have accepted the fact that the majority of their citizens know about the system in general terms but are not forthcoming on any other information regarding these systems that their citizens pay for via their taxes.