Re: New NSA patent explicity mentions machine transcription

[tv@wlwonline.de]

chatski carl wrote:

> > implementation of this can run in one or two thousand lines of C code,
> > though runtime requirements, especially on memory, are prohibitive
> > without optimization.
>
> I am surprised that the content of an important patent would be available
> to the public.
> There are mechanisms for patenting and classifying simultaneously.
> Why was this not done in this case?
>

that's a good question. possibly the technology is already "old stuff" for
the nsa, so publishing it can do no damage, but invite some peer-review?