Posted on 03/05/2010 4:18:39 AM PST by justlittleoleme
The program is designed to look for indicators of cyber attacks by digging into all Internet communications, including the contents of emails, according to the declassified summary.
Homeland Security will then strip out identifying information and pass along data on new threats to NSA. It will also use threat information from NSA to better identify emerging cyber attacks.
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.wsj.com ...
“...like handing out speeding tickets in the Indy 500”
So now they can read our email. They can track our cell phones and log the websites we have visited.
What if Bush had done these things?
What about texting? can they monitor those? If not, it wont be very hard for the terrorists to get around it, and our privacy is shot for nothing.
http://www.xchangemag.com/hotnews/china-google-modern-comm.html
Text messages are being automatically scanned for certain keywords in an effort to root out pornography, salacious conversation and anything that violates the parameters for acceptable content that are decided by the central government. The central government, however, has not published what those parameters are, so consumers that want to keep their cellular service will likely keep texts more than a little innocuous on any number of fronts.
If a communication is flagged, the police will evaluate the text messages to determine with their own judgment if they violate the undefined “unhealthy content” rules. Human rights supporters have pointed out that the potential for the abuse of power is clear given the lack of codified guidelines.
I wonder how long it will take for that to happen here. Because we are in debt to china. It appears they are beginning to pull our strings everyday.
State to 'spy' on every phone call, email and web search. Every phone call, text message, email and website visit made by private citizens is to be stored for a year and will be available for monitoring by government bodies.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/6534319/State-to-spy-on-every-phone-call-email-and-web-search.html
It doesn't matter. For any encryption you might use, the gubment either has the keys or can break it.
I was wonder when that was going to be turned on. I guess the crazies were not that paranoid after all, as it turns out the government was listening to all of our communications. Time to start encrypting everything.
Moss: It’s [Einstein] the civilian governments defensive. It’s like their IDS (intrusion detection system). So there’s a technology road map. If you go to a government system or leave a government system you would pass through this Einstein system and so the idea is once you have everything in these TICs you can start to analyze flows and look for interesting patterns.
I’m wondering what the food’s going to be like in the FEMA camps...
Maybe that’s because he issued the founding national security & presidential directives, initiated the programs and strategy and created the DHS?
now this system might be able to let em *add* to yer scrawlings unnoticed, but the fishin trips thru electic ladyland are to be expected from tyrannical wannabes of all political stripes...
hey bambam, did ya get all that ???
BTW FUBO and the wookie ya rode in on...
>> ECHELON
And under what admin was that initiated?
Haven’t heard much from Feingold on this stuff.
been around longer than you think.
Johnson I believe.
Thought it was under the Clinton administration. Maybe it was just exposed to the public then.
That was CARNIVORE I believe.
Magic Lantern?
it may be, I know I heard rumblings about ECHELON in late 90’s, as much as this administration likes to “rename” things I suspect it’s the same....with tweaks.
names under different purpose...who knows anymore
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