Some years back, in a chapter of my Future Imperfect, I mentioned a scene in an old movie ("The President's Analyst") where it turns out that the bad guys have been tapping every phone in America and suggested that it was now practical to do it, with computers instead of people listening. The main cost of wiretaps in the past was labor, and computers work cheap.
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Some years back, in a chapter of my Future Imperfect, I mentioned a scene in an old movie ("The President's Analyst") where it turns out that the bad guys have been tapping every phone in America and suggested that it was now practical to do it, with computers instead of people listening. The main cost of wiretaps in the past was labor, and computers work cheap.