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Boston Summit 2006 is on Echelon's radar

Posted Oct 13, 2006 11:10 UTC (Fri) by smitty_one_each (subscriber, #28989)
In reply to: Boston Summit 2006 is on Echelon's radar by jdub
Parent article: Boston Summit 2006 is on Echelon's radar

Naming it Echelon could have unintended consequences: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON
Rather a loaded term, in some circles.

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Posted Oct 13, 2006 12:12 UTC (Fri) by ewan (subscriber, #5533) [Link]

It's a system for distilling huge amounts of information spread over numerous communications systems into a usable state. They didn't call it Echelon by accident.