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Date: 1998-10-01
Up/date: Wired ueber Echelon-.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- updating 98.9.30/1 Up/date: Wired ueber Echelon In der EU-Kommission steht im Oktober eine neue Untersuchung über das globale Abhörsystem an, die Republikaner werden es zur gleichen Zeit im US-Kongress zur Sprache bringen. Auch wenn die Echelon/betreiber US/UK/AU/NZ/ sämtliche Anfragen grundsätzlich ignorieren, steht nach zahlreichen Berichten in angesehenen Medien wie der NY-Times der letzten Zeit fest, dass Echelon ganz in den Bereich "Science" & gar nicht unter "Fiction" einzuordnen ist. DISCLAIMER: Die Berichterstattung der q/depesche zum Komplex Echelon beruht zu einem guten Teil auf Sachkenntnis & Recherchearbeit von Kid Moechel, der bereits in den frühen 90er Jahren über Echelon publiziert hat. Kid M. ist u.a. Autor des Sachbuchs "Der geheime Krieg der Agenten" (Hamburg 1997). -.-.- --.- -.-.- --.- -.-.- --.- by Niall McKay, niall@wired.com If the European Parliament has its way, the lid is about to come off what is reputedly one of the most powerful, secretive, and extensive spy networks in history -- if, in fact, it really exists. In October, Europe's governing body will commission a full report into the workings of Echelon, a global network of highly sensitive listening posts operated in part by America's most clandestine intelligence organization, the National Security Agency [ http://www.nsa.gov:8080/ ]. "Frankly, the only people who have any doubt about the existence of Echelon are in the United States," said Glyn Ford [ http://www.glynford.com/ ], a British member of the European Parliament and a director of Scientific and Technical Options Assessment, or STOA http://www.europarl.eu.int/dg4/stoa/en/default.htm ], a technology advisory committee to the parliament. Echelon is reportedly able to intercept, record, and translate any electronic communication -- telephone, data, cellular, fax, email, telex -- sent anywhere in the world. The parliamentary report will focus on concerns that the system has expanded and is now zeroed in on the secrets of European companies and elected officials. The parliament is alarmed at reports of Echelon's impressive capabilities, and during a debate on 19 September the European Union called for accountability http://www.europarl.eu.int/dg3/sdp/pointses/en/p980914s.htm#6 ... Across the Atlantic, Patrick Poole, deputy director for the Free Congress Foundation, a conservative Washington think tank, is preparing a report on Echelon to present to Republican members of Congress. "I believe it's time we start to bring this matter to our elected officials," he said. ... Over the years, enough information has leaked to suggest that the spy network is more than science fiction. Echelon came to the attention of the EU Parliament following a report commissioned by STOA last year. ... According to the STOA report and stories in The New York Times, The Daily Telegraph, and The Guardian, Echelon consists of a network of listening posts, antenna fields, and radar stations. The system is backed by computers that use language translation, speech recognition, and keyword searching to automatically sift through telephone, email, fax, and telex traffic. The system is principally operated by the NSA and the GCHQ, but reportedly also relies on cooperation with "signals intelligence" operations in other countries, including the Communications Security Establishment of Canada http://www.cse.dnd.ca/ ], Australia's Defense Signals Directorate, and New Zealand's Government Communications Security Bureau. ... Each agency reportedly maintains a glossary of keywords. If Echelon intercepts a transmission containing a word or phrase contained in the glossary -- bomb, for example -- the full conversation, email, or fax is recorded and shared among the agencies. "Echelon intercepts Internet traffic at the transport layer, such as the TCP/IP layer, so the system doesn't care too much what it is or where it came from," said Pike. "For analog traffic, such as telephone conversations, it uses automatic voice-recognition technology to scan the conversations." ... A 1993 BBC documentary about NSA's Menwith Hill facility in England revealed that peace protestors had broken into the installation and stolen part of this glossary, known as "the Dictionary." The documentary alleged that Menwith Hill -- a sprawling installation covering 560 acres and employing more than 1,200 people -- was Echelon's nerve center. Further evidence emerged last year, when British Telecom told a court that it provides high-bandwidth telecommunications into the Menwith Hill facility and from the facility to the United States, using a transatlantic fiber-optic network. full story http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/politics/story/15295. html -.-.- --.- -.-.- --.- -.-.- --.- q/depesche is powered by http://www.netsphere.at handicrafters of fine mailing-lists and more -.-.- --.- -.-.- --.- -.-.- --.- - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- edited by published on: 1998-10-01 comments to office@quintessenz.at subscribe Newsletter - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- 
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