SUCCESSFULLY "ECHELONISED", EVERYTHING IS UNDER CONTROL
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Sam de Silva We won the war... Now we are fighting the peace. It's a lot more volatile... Ten year olds go on the net and download encryption we can barely break - not to mention instructions on how to build a nuclear device. Privacy has been dead for 30 years because we can't risk it. The only privacy that is left is the inside of your head and maybe that's enough. (1) Echelon is the code name for a global surveillance system designed and coordinated by the National Security Agency (NSA) in the United States. (2) Echelon's role is to "intercept ordinary e-mail, fax, telex and telephone communications carried over the world's telecommunications networks"(3). It isn't a bug or a powerful satellite or a sensitive receiver; it is a distributed network which has a number of interception sites around the world that tap in to major telecommunications networks. Because of the integral role telecommunications play in our society, Echelon has effectively become a set of omnipresent eyes and ears that can see and hear everything. |
