Di 23 Mai 2006
Mehr über die Abhörwelle in den USA
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Interessante Spekulation über die Hintergründe zu dem umfassenden Abhörprogramm der NSA.
What Is The Real Purpose Of Bush’s NSA Surveillance?:
Given that a perfectly legal program which could actually accomplish the stated objective of capturing terrorists before attacking Americans exists, but was rejected by Bush, would could be the real underlying purpose for Bush’s NSA surveillance program that has a minor, if any, impact on anti-terror objectives?
Perhaps the answer lies in the fact that if Bush is to actually succeed in finding terrorists with the program he is using, this program requires more data about Americans. That is, phone records are not sufficient for this objective, so more data would be required. Like the camel who first sticks its head in the tent, Bush may have wanted pretextual grounds to keep expanding the nature and amount of information about Americans that he collected and deposited in databases.
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[T]he equipment that AT&T whistleblower Mark Klein says was installed by NSA in AT&T’s secret switching room is apparently Narus, which has the capacity to be the “best internet spy tool:”
“Anything that comes through (an internet protocol network), we can record,” says Steve Bannerman, marketing vice president of Narus, a Mountain View, California, company. “We can reconstruct all of their e-mails along with attachments, see what web pages they clicked on, we can reconstruct their (voice over internet protocol) calls.”
The combination can keep track of, analyze and record nearly every form of internet communication, whether e-mail, instant message, video streams or VOIP phone calls that cross the network.”
[…]Given that Bush rejected the ThinThread program that is reported to be both effective at finding terrorists and provide protection to privacy rights, one just has to wonder at the real reason for the NSA program.
Um es zusammenzufassen: Das von Clinton initiierte, legale Abhörprogramm beschränkte sich auf anonymisierte Verbindungsinformationen. Das von Bush heimlich ins Leben gerufene Abhörprogramm ist illegal und bietet die Möglichkeit, nicht nur Verbindungsinformationen, sondern alle Daten, die über Telekommunikationsleitungen laufen, abzuhören.
Bei der bekannten Geschichte der Bush-Administration kann man ihr wohl kaum trauen, diese Informationen nicht zu missbrauchen.