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NSA line eater n.
The National Security Agency trawling program sometimes assumed to be reading the net for the U.S. Government's spooks. Most hackers used to think it was mythical but believed in acting as though existed just in case. since the mid-1990s it has gradually become known that the NSA actually does this, quite illegaly, through its Echelon program.
The standard countermeasure is to put loaded phrases like `KGB', `Uzi', `nuclear materials', `Palestine', `cocaine', and `assassination' in their [sig block]s in a (probably futile) attempt to confuse and overload the creature. The [GNU] version of [EMACS] actually has a command that randomly inserts a bunch of insidious anarcho-verbiage into your edited text.