IP: NYT Cybertimes: European Study Paints a Chilling Portrait of

[Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

To: farber@dsl.cis.upenn.edu
From: caruso@technomedia.com (Denise Caruso)




http://www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/euro/022498euro.html


A massive telecommunications interception network operates within Europe and,
according to a new study circulating on the Internet, "targets the
telephone, fax and e-mail messages of private citizens, politicians, trade
unionists and companies alike."


The report says that the network has the ability to tap into almost all
international telecommunications as well as parts of domestic phone traffic
- and is apparently operated by intelligence agencies without any mechanism
of democratic control.


The network, dubbed Echelon, is described in a new study by the European
Parliament titled "An Appraisal of Technologies of Political Control." [...
continued]


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Denise Caruso                                   'Beware the lollipop of
415.695.0508                                     mediocrity. Lick it once
Columnist, New York Times                        and you suck forever.'
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