Echelon: Considerations with International Communications Monitoring

Echelon: Considerations on International Telecommunications Monitoring Since the invention of the radio, information gathering organizations have developed and used eavesdropping techniques to intercept and confirm wireless communications. Initially, these functions were only used to monitor hostile countries, especially for military purposes. Human operators have to manually review each transmission and cryptanalyst carefully examines military passwords to decipher important messages.

James Bamford further explained the capabilities of ECHELON at Body of Secrets (2002) on the National Security Agency. Over the years, intelligent surveillance of citizens and their communication has caused great public concern in areas subject to AUSCANNZUKUS security agreement. After the attack on the World Trade Center and the Department of Defense in September 2001, the number of domestic spy activities in the US increased dramatically. Future attacks of this size are expected to lead to the adoption of the Patriot Act. Subsequent measures include "US protection law" (a request to withdraw government warrants to monitor foreign targets) and the FISA amendment law (which relaxed some of the original FISA court requirements) It was.

The formation of the International UKU SA Supervision Agreement in 1946 has evolved from five English-speaking countries (aka Five Eyes) to ECHELON in 1955, focusing on eavesdropping interception and drastic improvement of domestic monitoring ability It was. In response to the attack on September 11, 2001, domestic and international large-scale monitoring capabilities soared. Modern large-scale surveillance relies on the annual presidential execution order to be signed by George W Bush for the first time on September 14, 2001 and to announce the continuation of the emergency continued by US President Obama each year since then Event of. National Security Law including the PRISM monitoring program of the US Patriot Act and the FISA Amendment Act

By holding Jam Echelon Day (JED) on October 21, 1999, hackers tried to interfere with ECHELON (an international electronic communication monitoring network filtering satellite, microwave, mobile phone, optical fiber traffic) It was. On the same day, Hacktivist also used list servers and newsgroups to further expand keywords and attached numerous keywords to list a number of messages. The idea is to bring a very large number of clicks and overloads to the Echelon computer. It was reported that the NSA computer crashed mysteriously in early March 2000, but it is unknown whether JED successfully interfere with Echelon. The 2nd Jam Echelon Day (JEDII) was held in October 2000, but the idea did not regain its initial popularity. The JED part is a denial of service attack, part of which is agitprop.