Want to know the hardware behind Echelon?

antigop

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Mon Jan-02-06 04:13 PM
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Want to know the hardware behind Echelon?

Edited on Mon Jan-02-06 04:14 PM by antigop

http://www.techworld.com/storage/news/index.cfm?NewsID=2430

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It works like this: The calls are recorded by geo-stationary spy satellites and listening stations, such as the UK's Menwith Hill, which combine satellite-intercepted calls and trunk landline intercepts and forward them on to centres, such as the US' Fort Meade, where supercomputers work on the recordings in real time.

But what, you ask, can deal with that overwhelming mass of data that helps our government spy on the world? And how does it work?
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hootinholler

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Mon Jan-02-06 04:49 PM
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1. Kinda fits in with

Edited on Mon Jan-02-06 04:49 PM by hootinholler

This thread I started a couple of days ago.

Thanks for the link.

-Hoot

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ddeclue

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Wed Jan-11-06 12:13 PM
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2. For everything else there's supposed to be FISA...

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ddeclue

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Wed Jan-11-06 12:14 PM
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3. NSA Wireless.. Can they hear you now?

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