Don't assume any human being is.Flash wrote:What I want to know is, who in the government is reading all the stuff those monitoring programs must flag? There must be a billion e-mails a day that contain at least one trigger word. What's the point of looking for trigger words if there's not enough people to read all the crap that turns up?
I concur with Pizzasgood. I'd have automated filters with progressively finer levels of discrimination. And I wouldn't even attempt to sniff all mail. I'm not certain that would be technically possible, nor worth it if it was.
I'd start sniffing particular email streams if something else gave me an idea there might be traffic worth looking at. And my filters would be designed to flag only stuff likely to be important enough to pay attention to.
The mere presence of the trigger word is meaningless. It's the context in which the words are used that is key, and analyzing context is a more difficult matter. (And it's that analysis of context to determine if something is a threat that would employ human readers.)
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Dennis