投稿者 メラトニン 日時 2000 年 8 月 29 日 19:42:41:
NY Times (2000/08/28) Supercomputers Track Human Genome から部分引用:
"Kwang-I Yu, president of Paracel Inc., will not say which secretive government agency buys his company's specialized supercomputers."
"But J. Craig Venter, the president of Celera Genomics, is less circumspect. Paracel's machines, he said, are used by the National Security Agency, the code-breaking unit that eavesdrops on other nations. And Dr. Venter should know. Celera Genomics, the company that mapped the human genome, acquired Paracel for nearly $250 million in stock in June."
"Paracel's machines are designed to sift documents rapidly for particular words, phrases or strings of letters -- an ability of obvious use to those filtering communications for important nuggets."
遺伝子解析用に開発された適応型情報フィルタリングシステムを NSA が使っているという話です。
(記事自体はバイオインフォマティクスの分野で各社が鎬を削っているという話です。)
こういうシステムを使って通信をフィルタしてるんでしょうかね。