[CTRL] MI5 builds new centre to read e-mails on the net

2000-05-02 Thread Kris Millegan 

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MI5 builds new centre to read e-mails on the net

Nicholas Rufford



MI5 is building a new £25m e-mail surveillance centre that will have the
power to monitor all e-mails and internet messages sent and received in
Britain. The government is to require internet service providers, such as
Freeserve and AOL, to have "hardwire" links to the new computer facility so
that messages can be traced across the internet.

The security service and the police will still need Home Office permission to
search for e-mails and internet traffic, but they can apply for general
warrants that would enable them to intercept communications for a company or
an organisation.

The new computer centre, codenamed GTAC - government technical assistance
centre - which will be up and running by the end of the year inside MI5's
London headquarters, has provoked concern among civil liberties groups. "With
this facility, the government can track every website that a person visits,
without a warrant, giving rise to a culture of suspicion by association,"
said Caspar Bowden, director of the Foundation for Information Policy
Research.

The government already has powers to tap phone lines linking computers, but
the growth of the internet has made it impossible to read all material. By
requiring service providers to install cables that will download material to
MI5, the government will have the technical capability to read everything
that passes over the internet.

Home Office officials say the centre is needed to tackle the use of the
internet and mobile phone networks by terrorists and international crime
gangs.Charles Clark, the minister in charge of the spy centre project, said
it would allow police to keep pace with technology.

"Hardly anyone was using the internet or mobile phones 15 years ago," a Home
Office source said. "Now criminals can communicate with each other by a huge
array of devices and channels and can encrypt their messages, putting them
beyond the reach of conventional eavesdropping."

There has been an explosion in the use of the internet for crime in Britain
and across the world, leading to fears in western intelligence agencies that
they will soon be left behind as criminals abandon the telephone and resort
to encrypted e-mails to run drug rings and illegal prostitution and
immigration rackets.

The new spy centre will decode messages that have been encrypted. Under new
powers due to come into force this summer, police will be able to require
individuals and companies to hand over computer "keys", special codes that
unlock scrambled messages.

There is controversy over how the costs of intercepting internet traffic
should be shared between government and industry. Experts estimate that the
cost to Britain's 400 service providers will be £30m in the first year.
Internet companies say that this is too expensive, especially as many are
making losses.

About 15m people in Britain have internet access. Legal experts have warned
that many are unguarded in the messages they send or the material they
download, believing that they are safe from prying eyes.

"The arrival of this spy centre means that Big Brother is finally here," said
Norman Baker, Liberal Democrat MP for Lewes. "The balance between the state
and individual privacy has swung too far in favour of the state."

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[CTRL] MI5 builds new centre to read e-mails on the net

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Subject:  MI5 builds new centre to read e-mails on the net
Date: Wednesday, May 03, 2000 12:28 AM

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>Echelon is the most overrated eavesdropping device in the entire arsenal of
>Orwellisms. The limited number of personell have to sift through tens of
>millions of e-mails per day: they were overwhelmed in 1995, when the number
>of daily e-mails were one tenth what they are now. No matter how many new
>stations and personell MI5 put on this, the number will be an additive
>countermeasure to a geometrically increasing problem of sifting. The
>problem for the listeners is pure math- there ain't no way to do it.
>
>I am much more alarmed with the coalation proceedures in the private
>enterprise realm- the ever increasing paper trail every person leaves
>behind them is being collected better every single day: we are at the point
>now where we can have a moderately sophisticated program collect dispirate
>pieces of information into a huge personal information whole, then make
>reasonable extrapolations and  predictors to make a well detailed and very
>likely psychological profile of the people involed. And keep in mind, this
>doesn't have to involve a person at all: you can have a program do it. The
>worstr thign about this is it's being done by the hyper efficient market
>and not the plodding and incompetant NSA: not only is it legal, it is
>necessarry to the system.
>
>Being afraid of Echelon is a crock- in the same way that a sattellite is
>more frightening than a radar gun because the "satellite can read your
>driver's license", it is a cumbersome, expensive, and highly intensive way
>to get information on an individual, whereas a radar gun is operating
>within five hundred feet oif your house, and will bust you guaranteed
>sometime in your life. A satellite will never look at you, a radar gun
>will. Same thing with the internet- the companies have innocuous and not
>very impressive Orewellian sounds, but the government is terrifying: guess
>which one will destroy our privacy and freedom?
>
>
>
>>This MI5 project appears to be an expansion of Echelon.  It is done
>>under the auspices of fighting terrorism and crime.  Truly dangerous
>>terrorists and criminals are now acutely aware of government
>>eavesdropping systems and know how to get around such systems, which
>>likely use computers to search for key words.  Not using suspected key
>>words, using throw-away e-mail addresses and communicating in person in
>>public spaces will probably be enough to foil this type of system in
>>most cases.  And petty criminals will not likely be a target of this
>>type of system.  So why then?  Spend money on gadgetry?  Intimidate the
>>population?  Whatever the purpose, Western governments have at their
>>disposal the tools for social control beyond the wildest fantasies of
>>the most totalitarian governments ever to exist.  And Britain is leading
>>the way.  We are assured that safeguards will be put in place to prevent
>>abuse.  That may be so.  But those safeguards are administrative, not
>>technical.  They could be eliminated in one morning by a memo.
>>
>>For those interested in the technologies of social control:
>>
>>This link explores the capabilities of Echelon -
>>http://www.anaserve.com/~wethepeople/hager.htm
>>
>>This link is to a report to the European Parliament entitled
>>"An Appraisal of Technologies of Political Control" -
>>http://cryptome.org/stoa-atpc.htm
>>
>>--Rob
>>
>>--


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