FBI retires Carnivore

[dfaugh]

We have the technology....

Just think about Google...it indexes EVERY page on the web (well almost) on a regular basis. And allows you to search them all in a split second. (as mentioned, this isn't, or at least wasn't, done with "big" machines, just a WHOLE lot of little ones). MPP = "Massive Parallel Processing"

Now if you wanna be real paranoid (and maybe we should be) Google records EVERY search done on their site...And keeps it FOREVER...AND records the IP address that originated the request (which can be traced back to your computer, via your ISPs logs).

Big Brother IS watching you...believe it....So George Orwell was off by 20 years or so....

 

[Derek Zeanah]

Tempest is about intercepting electro-magnetic emanations and using that to track your computations. Like, setting up a receiver tuned to the energy your monitor is putting off, and allowing someone a few hundred yards away to watch your screen. Or intercepting your keystrokes from the emanations from your keyboard. Or (possibly) tracking your CPU's usage from its emanations.

All possibly in theory; some actually tested. A "fortuitous conductor" (like your power cable, or modem cable) can be used to pull this information from much further away than you could get from RF, btw.

Still big-brotherish, but not Echelon-related.

 

[RevDisk]

Wasn't there also something called Tempest that worked with Eschelon?

TEMPEST is actually the research devoted to inhibiting signal interception from electronics. This type of SIGINT is called "van Eck phreaking". The public side of this research started with Wim van Eck's 1985 paper called "Electromagnetic Radiation from Video Display Units: An Eavesdropping Risk?". The government and military research is more highly classified than nuclear research.

 

[mons meg]

I see many of us have been drinking the Kool Aid.....goood.......

Seriously, though, it is best to remembe that any agency of sufficient size begins to work against itself in efficiency.

Oh, and the DOD has thousands upon thousands of civilian employees and contractors. i'm pretty sure they do *Not* fall under the UCMJ.