OK, Lefty Lie. My tin foil detector is making me think that YOU are a spy.
Come clean. NAS?
Are you spying on the Japanese or what?
Not I. I just work in computer security and research and development and have had meetings with the make of the software that does exactly this kind of thing, and he US government is one of their biggest customers. Put and and two together, and its easy. Its software used by a lot of companies to monitor pricing changes on e-retailing sites, and then adjust their own prices accordingly. Its also used as a data aggregation tool for software that runs on the web but doesn’t have an API to access its data directly. There are many tools that do this, but the one from the company I am working with is particularly awesome. Do a search on “web scraping” and you will find hundreds of links to software that does this and eventually come across the company that supplies the software to the government. I however will not directly say who they are, as they are an honest company that just happens to be capitalizing off the governments need for spying.