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8th Semester Jos Rosero

UNIVERSITY OF GUAYAQUIL

INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING FACULTY

TELEMATIC SCIENCES SCHOOL

Name: Jos Rosero

Date: 16/04/2012

Teacher: Msc. Dlogewes Diaz

ESSAY:

What is ECHELON?

A highly automated global system monitoring network to process data

retrieved through the interception of communication traffic around the

world. In the days of the Cold War, ECHELON's primary purpose was to keep

an eye / ear in the USSR In the wake of the collapse of the USSR ECHELON is

officially being used to combat terrorism offenses ann, but it seems clear the

main focus is on political and economic espionage.ECHELON there were rumors that in development since 1947, the result of

the UKUSA treaty signed by the governments of the United States, the United

Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

Coordination

It is coordinated by the NSA, the CIA involvement, the USAF, the NuclearSuppliers Group, GCHQ, DSD, CSE, GCSB. It appears that the NSA is the only

"contractor" who has access to all information, while other participants have

only a small portion of comparingly of information.


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ECHELON system headquarters

ECHELON system headquarters is at Fort Meade in Maryland, which is the

General NSA. The NSA operates many interception stations around the world,with or without the knowledge of the host country.

ECHELON functions.

Each station of the ECHELON network has computers that automatically

search through millions of intercepted data to contain pre-programmed

keywords or fax, telex and e-mail addresses. Every word of every message is

automatically searched. Computers that can search for keywords have

existed at least since the 1970s, but the ECHELON system is designed to

interconnect all the computers and allow the stations to function as

components of an integrated whole.

The scale of the collection system was described by the former director of

the NSA, Vice Admiral William Studeman, in 1992 At that time the NSA

system, the collection of generating about 2 million intercepted messages

per hour. Of these, all but about 13,000 an hour were discarded. Of these

about 2,000 met the criteria for issuing, of which about 20 are selected by

analysts, who write 2 reports for subsequent distribucin.Por Therefore, in

1992 MenwithHillSation intercept 17.5 million messages a year. Of these

some 17.5 million may have been considered for analysis.

ECHELON obviousely justify billions of dollars of expenditure. But there are

no detailed figures are available yet.


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CARNIVORE

Carnivore can read virtually all.

WHAT IS CARNIVORE?

Carnivore was a system implemented by the Federal Bureau of

Investigation that was designed to monitor email and electronic

communications. It used a customizable packet sniffer that can monitorall of a target user's Internet traffic. Carnivore was implemented in

October 1997. By 2005 it had been replaced with improved commercialsoftware such as NarusInsight.

Configuration

The Carnivore system was a Microsoft Windows-based workstation with packet-sniffing software and a removable diskdrive.[2]This computer must be physically installed at an Internet

service provider(ISP) or other location where it can "sniff" traffic ona LAN segment to look for email messages in transit. The technologyitself was not highly advanced it used a standard packet sniffer and

straightforward filtering. The critical components of the operation were

the filtering criteria. To accurately match the appropriate subject, an

elaborate content model was developed

Placement

The Carnivore system could be installed on a system either throughthe cooperation of the system owner, or by use of a court order. Once

in place, the system was restricted by U.S. Federal law[citation needed] to

only monitor specific persons. Under the current regulations, publiclyacknowledged government personnel are required to get a warrant or

court order naming specific people or email addresses that may bemonitored. When an email passes through that matches the filtering

criteria mandated by the warrant, the message is logged along with

information on the date, time, origin and destination. This logging wasbelieved to be relayed in real time to the FBI. All other traffic would

presumably be dropped without logging or capture
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Controversy

Several groups expressed concern regarding the implementation,

usage, and possible abuses of Carnivore. In July 2000, the Electronic

Frontier Foundation submitted a statement to the Subcommittee on the

Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary United States House ofRepresentatives detailing the dangers of such a system. The Electronic

Privacy Information Center also made several releases dealing with it.

The FBI countered these concerns with statements highlighting the

target-able nature of Carnivore. Assistant FBI Director Donald Kerr wasquoted as saying:

The Carnivore device works much like commercial "sniffers" and other

network diagnostic tools used by ISPs every day, except that it

provides the FBI with a unique ability to distinguish betweencommunications which may be lawfully intercepted and those which

may not. For example, if a court order provides for the lawful

interception of one type of communication (e.g., e-mail), but excludes

all other communications (e.g., online shopping) the Carnivore tool can

be configured to intercept only those e-mails being transmitted either to

or from the named subject.

After prolonged negative coverage in the press, the FBI changed the

name of its system from "Carnivore" to the more benign-sounding"DCS1000." DCS is reported to stand for "Digital Collection System";

the system has the same functions as before. TheAssociated

Pressreported in mid-January 2005 that the FBI essentially

abandoned the use of Carnivore in 2001, in favor of commercially

available software, such as NarusInsight (a mass surveillance system).
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