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• Push for hearings on Echelon.
• In an effort to create some accountability between the country's citizens and the National Security Agency's top-secret global surveillance system known as Echelon, the Free Congress Foundation is urging that congressional hearings be held concerning the NSA's use of the system. ...
• Originally, Echelon was designed to spy on the Communist Bloc during the Cold War. ...
• In essence, Echelon works through a series of high-tech spy facilities located primarily in five countries: the United States, Canada, England, New Zealand, and Australia. ... Not even cellular phone calls escape the grasp of the Echelon system. ...
• Where people will have a problem is where Echelon is used for political and business interests. ...
• The Echelon system gets most of its data by collecting all transmissions handled by the Intelsat and Inmarsat satellites, which are responsible for much of the electronic communication that takes place between countries. ...
• Once these spy facilities collect the phone calls, e-mails, and faxes, of virtually everyone on earth, the Echelon system sorts them through a kind of filter system known as the Echelon dictionary. ...
• Concerning Echelon's inherent intrusion on people's privacy, Patrick Poole, the deputy director for the Center of Technology Policy at the Free Congress Foundation, said, "While we understand the need for the intelligence power embodied by Echelon, the indiscriminate use of Echelon presents major threats to liberty not only to U. ...
• corporations are fed items of interest (via Echelon) from time to time to give them a leg up on international competitors," said Madsen. ...
• With this kind of abuse of Echelon's power, the question as to whether or not the U. ...
• is the prime mover behind the Echelon system, it's shameful that the European Parliament is the body holding the constitutional debate in regards to Echelon today. ...
• In an effort to bring the issues surrounding Echelon to the forefront of American politics, the Free Congress Foundation plans to send out a report about Echelon to all of the 500 policy organizations in the U. ...
• "For there to be any account and oversight to the Echelon system, the American people are going to have to contact their elected representatives in order to investigate the abuses that we know have occurred in regards to the Echelon system," Poole said. ...
• See Free Congress Foundation's report on Echelon. ...

• SCANDALOUS "ECHELON" By Elmar Gusseinov The whole modern world satellite network is being listened by American electronic investigation (systems belonged to intelligent service). ... 'Echelon' is the name of the system of electronic listening. ... As European experts think, creation of 'Echelon' is the initiative of NSA and this work is being preformed since about 1980. ... The system 'Echelon' is based on filtering of information by the use of key words. ... Some members of the French parliaments have sent an official Request to own government in attempts to know the government's position on operation of  the 'Echelon' operation. French officials inform that the operation of 'Echelon' is a subject of concern to the French government. Despite a series of human rights broken by operation of 'Echelon', formally, there are no international laws forbidding non-authorized penetration inside the satellite nets. ...

• Jam Echelon Day - October 21, 2001 .
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• The primary goal of Jam Echelon Day 2001 is to raise public awareness of the existence of Echelon and stimulate scrutiny of the world's government agencies that operate it. ...
• We are offering substantial resources for people to educate themselves about Echelon and what it is capable of. ...
• The 2001 “Jam Echelon” campaign has kept the name of it’s 1999 predecessor both to honor a great idea and to state an ideal. We acknowledge that the current level of technology being utilized by the Echelon group far exceeds our ability to actually impact it in this manner. We do not intend, nor do we encourage attempting to overload Echelon's surveillance systems with spam. ...
• In the past, different organizations and individuals have sent out mass emailings using "keywords" designed to trigger Echelon's filters. In reality, it is unknown if this tactic actually jammed up Echelon's systems but it is likely that this would only produce an abundance of Echelon related spam and be counter productive. It is our opinion that more can be accomplished by sending people to one of the Jam Echelon mirrors for information. ...
• Our recommendation for action on October 21st is for you to email everyone on your personal mailing list informing them of the existence of Echelon. (you can let send this mail by our server automaticaly on Jam Echelon Day with interesting generated text) Then, direct them to one of the “Jam Echelon” sites for further information. ...
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• ECHELON et Frenchelon.
• Ce texte n'a pas pour but d'expliquer l'organisation technique d'Echelon (voir la partie "références" à ce sujet), mais plutôt de cerner son historique, ses enjeux actuels et, surtout, les liaisons "occultes" qu'il entretient maintenant avec le milieu commercial et les gouvernements Européens. ...
• En fait, Echelon n'est qu'une partie du système : c'est le nom du programme chargé de trier et d'analyser les communications en se basant sur une recherche par mots clés. Cependant, le terme Echelon est souvent utilisé pour parler du système complet. ...
• Inutile de dire que jusqu'il y a quelques années, Echelon faisait partie des secrets les mieux gardés, à l'écart de tout contrôle parlementaire, y compris du Sénat Américain. ...
• Aujourd'hui, maintenant que la guerre froide est terminée, une bonne partie de la puissance d'Echelon est reportée sur l'espionnage économique (c'est, par exemple, grâce à Echelon que Boeing a gagné un important contrat face à Airbus) .
• Mais ce qui caractérise Echelon avant tout, c'est sa systématicité. ...
• Pour être plus précis, alors que ces lois impliquent que les écoutes ne peuvent être faites que sur des personnes déterminées, et sur réquisition des autorités judiciaires, Echelon travaille en recherchant l'utilisation de mots clés dans les conversations de l'ensemble de la population. ...
• Comment passer outre ? En sous-traitant ces traitements aux autres pays membres d'Echelon, bien sûr. ...
• Cependant, l'Angleterre n'est pas le seul pays Européen à participer à Echelon. En effet, certains pays tels que le Danemark et l'Allemagne sont des pays "affiliés" à Echelon. ...
• Livrées sous forme de bandes magnétiques, ces données étaient ensuite traitées par Echelon. ...
• La "libre circulation" de ces données par le système Echelon montre d'autre part un autre problème, qu'il nous faudra montrer au grand jour lors des débats à propos de la transposition de la directive Européenne. ...
• Or, comment peut dont dire que cette enceinte est sûre, lorsque l'on sait que des pays européens vendent des données, ou que la plus grande base d'Echelon ne se trouve pas aux USA, mais à Menwith Hill, en plein coeur de l'Angleterre ? .
• "Frenchelon", l'Echelon Français. ...
• Cependant, si nous devons nous occuper d'Echelon, nous devons bien sûr nous élever contre son (petit) équivalent Français : Frenchelon. ...

• Europeans question NSA "Echelon" network news .
• In October, Europe's governing body will commission a full report into the workings of Echelon, a global network of highly sensitive listening posts operated in part by America's most clandestine intelligence organization, the National Security Agency. "Frankly, the only people who have any doubt about the existence of Echelon are in the United States," said Glyn Ford, a British member of the European Parliament and a director of Scientific and Technical Options Assessment, or STOA, a technology advisory committee to the parliament. Echelon is reportedly able to intercept, record, and translate any electronic communication -- telephone, data, cellular, fax, email, telex -- sent anywhere in the world. ... The parliament is alarmed at reports of Echelon's impressive capabilities, and during a debate on 19 September, the European Union called for accountability. The parliament stressed that the NSA and the Government Communications Headquarters, which jointly operate Echelon, must adopt measures to guard against the system's abuse. ... " Across the Atlantic, Patrick Poole, deputy director for the Free Congress Foundation, a conservative Washington think tank, is preparing a report on Echelon to present to Republican members of Congress. ... Poole and Ford have their work cut out for them: Neither Britain nor the United States will admit that Echelon even exists. ... Echelon came to the attention of the EU Parliament following a report commissioned by STOA last year. "Unlike many of the electronic spy systems developed during the Cold War, Echelon is designed for primarily non-military targets: governments, organizations, and businesses in virtually every country," the report said. According to the STOA report and stories in The New York Times, The Daily Telegraph, and The Guardian, Echelon consists of a network of listening posts, antenna fields, and radar stations. ... If Echelon intercepts a transmission containing a word or phrase contained in the glossary -- bomb, for example -- the full conversation, email, or fax is recorded and shared among the agencies.

• Project Echelon.
•      If you have ever been a fan of science fiction, then you have to know about the highly controversial project known as Echelon. ...
• Even pager signals and satellite transmissions fall victim to Project Echelon. ...
• “It has been theorized that Project Echelon was created to provide a backdoor to constitutional rights here in the United States. ...
•      It has been theorized that Project Echelon was created to provide a backdoor to constitutional rights here in the United States. Other agencies outside of the United States are enlisted to carry out Project Echelon and then report back to the National Security Agency to circumvent the fourth amendment, which states:.
• The NSA, which it has yet to formally acknowledge Project Echelon, has free reign on this mission. ...
•      Project Echelon's equipment can process 1 million message inputs every 30 minutes, according to a series of reports commissioned by the Scientific and Technological Options Assessment program STOA , a research wing of the European Parliament. ...

• "Vi racconto tutti i segreti di Echelon".
• Per arrivare all'orecchio di Echelon bisogna attraversare fiumi rianimati dai ghiacci appena sciolti e distese chilometriche di un verde accecante. ... "Venite per sapere di più di Echelon, immagino. ...
• Ha vissuto attaccato al ricettore di Echelon, la rete di satelliti spia organizzata dagli Stati Uniti, con l'appoggio di Gran Bretagna, Canada, Australia e Nuova Zelanda. ... Nel '93 è diventato il primo pentito di Echelon. ... Senza di lui la storia di Echelon sarebbe ancora nascosta nei sottoscala degli 007. ... Le sue rivelazioni sono agli atti dell'inchiesta europea su Echelon che sarà approvata giovedì a Bruxelles. ... "Echelon doveva essere il guardiano del villaggio. ... Nel centro di Ottawa, una delle cinque basi mondiali di Echelon, lavoravano 50 operatori.
• Da quel giorno è diventato il pentito di Echelon.
• Così, è nato il progetto P145, ovvero Echelon, specializzato sulla Comint (comunication intelligence, i messaggi via satellite). ... Oggi ci sono 120 satelliti spia che lavorano per Echelon. ... "In teoria Echelon può arrivare dappertutto. ... Con un dispaccio a tutte le basi Echelon il vice ammiraglio della Nsa William Studeman annunciava: d'ora in poi i paesi della comunità europea dovranno essere classificati come nemico. ...
• La commissione che indaga su Echelon, guidata dall'eurodeputato tedesco Gherard Schmidt, potrebbe decidere di chiamare Stock come teste. ... Dopo le prime contestazioni ai metodi di spionaggio di Echelon, Stock è stato mandato dallo psichiatra. ...

• HAGER'S INVESTIGATION INTO IT AND HIS DISCOVERY OF THE ECHELON DICTIONARY HAS REVEALED ONE OF THE WORLD'S BIGGEST, MOST CLOSELY HELD INTELLIGENCE PROJECTS. ...
• Of these, by far the most important is ECHELON. ...
• Designed and coordinated by NSA, the ECHELON system is used to intercept ordinary e-mail, fax, telex, and telephone communications carried over the world's telecommunications networks. Unlike many of the electronic spy systems developed during the Cold War, ECHELON is designed primarily for non-military targets: governments, organizations, businesses, and individuals in virtually every country. ...
• The ECHELON system is not designed to eavesdrop on a particular individual's e-mail or fax link. ... ECHELON links together all these facilities, providing the US and its allies with the ability to intercept a large proportion of the communications on the planet. ...
• The computers at each station in the ECHELON network automatically search through the millions of messages intercepted for ones containing pre-programmed keywords. ...
• SOMEONE IS LISTENING: The computers in stations around the globe are known, within the network, as the ECHELON Dictionaries. Computers that can automatically search through traffic for keywords have existed since at least the 1970s, but the ECHELON system was designed by NSA to interconnect all these computers and allow the stations to function as components of an integrated whole. ...
• For decades before the introduction of the ECHELON system, the UKUSA allies did intelligence collection operations for each other, but each agency usually processed and analyzed the intercept from its own stations. ...
• Under ECHELON, a particular station's Dictionary computer contains not only its parent agency's chosen keywords, but also has lists entered in for other agencies. ...
• The first component of the ECHELON network are stations specifically targeted on the international telecommunications satellites (Intelsats) used by the telephone companies of most countries. ...
• These codenames are recorded at the beginning of every intercepted message, before it is transmitted around the ECHELON network, allowing analysts to recognize at which station the interception occurred. ...
• Until New Zealand's integration into ECHELON with the opening of the Waihopai station in 1989, its share of the Japanese communications was intercepted at Yakima and sent unprocessed to the GCSB headquarters in Wellington for decryption, translation, and writing into UKUSA-format intelligence reports (the NSA provides the codebreaking programs). ...
• "COMMUNICATION" THROUGH SATELLITES: The next component of the ECHELON system intercepts a range of satellite communications not carried by Intelsat. ...
• A group of facilities that tap directly into land-based telecommunications systems is the final element of the ECHELON system. ...

• Report Downplays Echelon Effect  .
• In a 250KB draft report, the committee said that Echelon -- operated by English-speaking countries including the United States, Canada and Great Britain -- is designed for intelligence purposes but that no "substantiated" evidence exists that it has been used to spy on European firms on behalf of American competitors. ...
• While impressive, Echelon is not "nearly as extensive" as news reports have claimed, the 33-member committee concluded, saying the system continues to rely heavily on satellite and radio intercepts and can intercept "only a very limited proportion" of the growing amount of telecommunications traffic that flows through fiber optic and land lines. ...
• Echelon Snub Angers Europe.
• Euros Continue Echelon Probe.
• Perhaps the most complete description of Echelon comes from Body of Secrets (Doubleday), a recent book by James Bamford. It says that Echelon is the name of the software package the NSA created in the 1970s to allow participating intelligence agencies to dip into the pool of information gathered from listening posts around the globe. ...
• Analysts with access to the classified network can use an AltaVista-like search engine to forward queries through the Echelon system that contain keywords, names, phrases or telephone numbers, Bamford says. ...
• Last June, the European parliament created a temporary committee to investigate how extensive the Echelon system -- operated by the United States, Britain, Australia and New Zealand -- was, and whether it had been used to give American firms an advantage in international business decisions. ...
• The committee's draft report, which appears to have been written before the abortive visit to the United States, says that any European Union country -- that is, Great Britain -- using Echelon for corporate espionage would violate its treaty responsibilities. ...
• Echelon Snub Angers Europe May. 18, 2001Euros Continue Echelon Probe Apr. ...

• Dossier Echelon.
• Wat is Echelon?.
• Nederland en Echelon.
• De EU en Echelon.
• De vaste Kamercommissie voor Justitie onderzoekt in hoeverre Nederland deelneemt aan het internationale spionagenetwerk Echelon. ...
• In dit dossier vindt u informatie over Echelon, artikelen over de hoorzittingen van de Tweede Kamer en de rol van de EU, en documenten. ...

• ECHELON.
• ECHELON intercept station at Menwith Hill, England.
• The system is called ECHELON, and had been rumored to be in development since 1947, the result of the UKUSA treaty signed by the governments of the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. ...
• What is ECHELON used for?.
• In the days of the cold war, ECHELON's primary purpose was to keep an eye on the U. ... ECHELON justifies it's continued multi-billion dollar expense with the claim that it is being used to fight "terrorism", the catch-all phrase used to justify any and all abuses of civil rights. ...
• With the exposure of the APEC scandal, however, ECHELON's capabilities have come under renewed scrutiny and criticism by many nations. ... Intelligence agencies to bug the conference for the purpose of providing commercial secrets to DNC donors raised the very real possability that ECHELON's all-hearing ears were prying corporate secrets loose for the advantage of the favored few. ...
• Given that real terrorists and drug runners would always use illegal cryptographic methods anyway, the USA led attempt to ban strong crypto to the general populace seemed geared towards keeping corporate secrets readable to ECHELON, rather than any real attempt at crime prevention. ...
• So, the Civil Liberties Committee of the European Parliament looked into ECHELON, and officially confirmed it's existence and purpose. ...
• ECHELON system.
• "The ECHELON system forms part of the UKUSA system (Cooking up a.
• developed during the Cold War, ECHELON is designed primarily for.
• "The ECHELON system works by indiscriminately intercepting very large.
• According to the report, ECHELON uses a number of national dictionaries.
• They claim that ECHELON automatically.

• Echelon is perhaps the most powerful intelligence gathering organization in the world. ... According to these reports, ECHELON attempts to capture staggering volumes of satellite, microwave, cellular and fiber-optic traffic, including communications to and from North America. ...
• Moreover, the agencies that purportedly run ECHELON have provided few details as to the legal guidelines for the project. Because of this, there is no way of knowing if ECHELON is being used illegally to spy on private citizens. ...

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