Echelon Conspiracy - trailer & review

[24KT]

This is actually a pretty good movie. I got the impression that not all the actors were on the same page about the genre, ...but still it was pretty good. I thought the climax was pretty ...unoriginal... for want of a better word, ...but some solid performances and curiosity keep you watching, and the end is a total surprise I don't think anyone could have predicted.

It stars Shane West, Martin Sheen, Ving Rhames, and Edward Burns with a brief cameo by Jonathon Pryce

Echelon Conspiracy:

[drkaje]

Echelon is real, Judi.

[24KT]

Echelon is real, Judi.

Well then it needs to send me the winning numbers for the lottery. 

[drkaje]

Well then it needs to send me the winning numbers for the lottery. 

It's basically a computer program that randomly monitors cell phone conversations for keywords. Yes, with a subpoena it can be targeted to a specific phone.

Essentially, the technology Google uses to decide which ads people see while reading e-mails is based upon Echelon.

The days when people can expect a certain level of privacy have been gone since the day some geek figured out hard-wired telephones could be listened to from space.