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Started by Woody
Tue, 24 Jul 2007 01:14
open letter to contel.test.moderated readers
Author: Woody
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 01:14
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 01:14
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- one at that. He is on a three-year posting to the center of the UKUSA alliance, the enormous NSA headquarters at Fort George G. Meade. This posting was the first ever by a GCSB analyst to the NSA. Before he left New Zealand his daily work, like that of all analysts, revolved entirely around that most striking manifestation of GCSB's links with the NSA: the ECHELON Dictionary system. Each morning the signals intelligence analysts in New Zealand log on at their computer terminals and enter the Dictionary system, just as their equivalents do in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. What follows is a precise description of how the system works, the first time it has been publicly described. [Buy the book for full details] After entering their security passwords, the analysts reach a directory that lists the different categories of intercept available, each with a four digit code; 4066, for instance, might be Russian fishing trawlers, 5535 Japanese diplomatic traffic in the South Pacific, 4959 communications from South Pacific countries and so on. They type in the code for the category they want to use first that day. As soon as they make a selection, a 'search result' appears, stating the number of documents which have been found fitting that category. The day's work begins, reading through screen after screen of intercepted messages. If a message appears worth reporting on, the analyst can select it from the rest and work on it out of the Dictionary system. He or she then translates the message - either in its entiret -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.7.1 AtfwmVPSrQTO7cQYf6HNcRTeVVceu5upumNrdj+m9YsWJ4HkgLdtHWKs00D07qyl QHIxsqzwaYxnZVl7ccmEAhubUcKkzxrOFkfy1sCLkMin+lhzAKLZWuEgYMgfzctx v3VG85RNBjdaB/U/UUqcJPy2OV2pwFVNyRWt9d/xGbXTbQrmtcPaLIHf6lVjmv+V y+PThO9DkYlqp5AkpVDN4MANVPrjeB== =rLB9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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