FRONTLINE tonight. Spying .... 8 pm here.

[L. Coyote]

check your local schedule.

[in_cog_ni_to]

1. Central time zone here...9:00 P.M. PBS....WTTW. Thanks for the reminder.

I forgot all about it! "Spying on the Homefront" Should be good!

[Arkansas Granny]

2. This should be good. I'll definitely be watching.

[L. Coyote]

3. kick. Let's blog this when it starts

[proud patriot]

4. 10 pm in San Francisco KQED

there is an interesting 2 hr Nova on before Frontine here.

[L. Coyote]

5. Starting NOW here.. "SPYING ON THE HOME FRONT"

"Hunting them by watching us"

[L. Coyote]

6. No target, no threat articulated, eleven days to go ...

No target, no threat articulated, eleven days to go ...

...thousands of agents on the street in Las Vegas on New Years Eve. Dec 2003, FBI "We want all of your records" on hundreds of thousands of people.

Ellen Knowlton, "As many as we could obtain." "It was very, very voluminous."

"As a matter of national security, we need the names of every single person checking in..."

"Trust us we are the government..."

[L. Coyote]

10. "Did you find any terrorists?" NO

Watch the full program again online.

http://www.pbs.org

[L. Coyote]

7. "Inoccent people will get caught in the dragnet"

Unprecedented authority to spy on the American people.

"Mr. President ... we are a democracy."

[L. Coyote]

8. The Church Comm. revealed that the NSA "had been syping on Americans for decades

Capabilties were there, the restrains were not there, excepting the Constitution.

FISA was established as the esclusive authority for getting warrants.

[L. Coyote]

9. "The President violated the law."

[L. Coyote]

11. See it online at pbs.org or order the CD. It was amazing.

[Up2Late]

12. Damn, I missed the first 5 minutes!

Can you recap what was covered?

[Up2Late]

13. Here's more info on the "black box" that the NSA was using with the AT&T Network...

...the Narus 6400: <http://www.narus.com/products/intercept.html>

This is really scary, just because of the way their web page describing their products:

NarusInsight Intercept Suite

Packet-level, flow-level, and application-level usage information is captured and analyzed as well as raw user session packets for forensic analysis, surveillance or in satisfying regulatory compliance for lawful intercept.

The Lawful Intercept module offers carriers and service providers compliance with regulatory requirements regarding lawful intercept. The Lawful Intercept module provides an end-to-end solution consisting of Administration, Access and Delivery functions. The Lawful Intercept module is compliant with CALEA and ETSI standards. It can be seamlessly integrated with third party products for testing/validation or as a complete law enforcement solution.

The Directed Analysis module seamlessly integrates with NarusInsight Secure Suite or other DDoS, intrusion or anomaly detection systems, securely providing analysts with real-time, surgical targeting of suspect information (from flow to application to full packets). The Directed Analyis module provides industry standard formats and offers tools for archival and integration with third party investigative tools.

NarusInsight Intercept Suite

These capabilities include playback of streaming media (i.e. VoIP), rendering of web pages, examination of e-mail and the ability to analyze the payload/attachments of e-mail or file transfer protocols. Narus partner products offer the ability to quickly analyze information collected by the Directed Analysis or Lawful Intercept modules. When Narus partners' powerful analytic tools are combined with the surgical targeting and real-time collection capabilities of Directed Analysis and Lawful Intercept modules, analysts or law enforcement agents are provided capabilities that have been unavailable thus far.
Customers

Carriers and Governments have deployed Narus around the world protect their countries and infrastructure. <http://www.narus.com/products/intercept.html>

And here's a Blog discussing this box and what it can do. If anyone can traslate this into common language, I would be grateful:

<http://www.netstumbler.org/showthread.php?t=19581>

The Narus 6400

Some Features:

* Industry-leading packet processing performance that supports network speeds of up to OC-192 at layer 4 and OC-48 at layer 7, enabling carriers to monitor traffic at either the edge of the network or at the core.


That is just amazing speed...

Politics aside that is some awesome technology.