[e-privacy] EFF Documents Shed Light on FBI Electronic Surveillance Technology

[Andrea Glorioso]

Da EFFector Vol. 20, No. 34  August 29, 2007  editor at eff.org:

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* EFF Documents Shed Light on FBI Electronic Surveillance Technology

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has obtained 
documents through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) 
that reveal the inner workings of the FBI's Digital 
Collection System Network (DCSNet), a software suite that 
allows the Bureau to conduct surveillance on a wide variety 
of digital devices.

As Ryan Singel writes in his extensive report for Wired 
News:

"Many of the details of the system and its full 
capabilities were redacted from the documents acquired by 
the Electronic Frontier Foundation, but they show that 
DCSNet includes at least three collection components, each 
running on Windows-based computers.

"The $10 million DCS-3000 client, also known as Red Hook, 
handles pen-registers and trap-and-traces, a type of 
surveillance that collects signaling information -- 
primarily the numbers dialed from a telephone -- but no 
communications content. (Pen registers record outgoing 
calls; trap-and-traces record incoming calls.)

"DCS-6000, known as Digital Storm, captures and collects 
the content of phone calls and text messages for full 
wiretap orders.

"A third, classified system, called DCS-5000, is used for 
wiretaps targeting spies or terrorists."

EFF obtained these documents through a FOIA lawsuit filed 
against the FBI last year. A federal judge has ordered the 
Bureau to turn over new documents every month, so check 
back often the learn more about DCSNet.

See the documents on EFF's FOIA litigation:
http://www.eff.org/flag/07656JDB/

For more on EFF's FLAG Project:
http://www.eff.org/flag/

Read Ryan Singel's Wired Threat Level report, "FBI's 
Wiretap Network Revealed And Request for Reader Document 
Analysis":
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/08/fbis-wiretap-ne.html

For the complete post and related links:
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/005415.php

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