FBI quietly forms secretive Net-surveillance unit

[The Watcher]

FBI quietly forms secretive Net-surveillance unit

CNET has learned that the FBI has formed a Domestic Communications Assistance Center, which is tasked with developing new electronic surveillance technologies, including intercepting Internet, wireless, and VoIP communications.

The FBI has recently formed a secretive surveillance unit with an ambitious goal: to invent technology that will let police more readily eavesdrop on Internet and wireless communications.

The establishment of the Quantico, Va.-based unit, which is also staffed by agents from the U.S. Marshals Service and the Drug Enforcement Agency, is a response to technological developments that FBI officials believe outpace law enforcement's ability to listen in on private communications.

While the FBI has been tight-lipped about the creation of its Domestic Communications Assistance Center, or DCAC -- it declined to respond to requests made two days ago about who's running it, for instance -- CNET has pieced together information about its operations through interviews and a review of internal government documents.

DCAC's mandate is broad, covering everything from trying to intercept and decode Skype conversations to building custom wiretap hardware or analyzing the gigabytes of data that a wireless provider or social network might turn over in response to a court order. It's also designed to serve as a kind of surveillance help desk for state, local, and other federal police.

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[Homeward]

I'm not sure that the East Germans, even at their height, were this paranoid.

[Grantbo]

All they have to do is plug into the eschelon system; it's been doing that for many decades.

[The Cub]

All they have to do is plug into the eschelon system; it's been doing that for many decades.

Yup....and Pine Gap:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_Gap

[Chaplain Chuck]

They still have rules to follow (like the constitution) until Obama declares Marshal Law

[lonewolfinoregon]

They still have rules to follow (like the constitution) until Obama declares Marshal Law

You believe that the Obama administration is following the CONSTITUTION??

They are doing everything in the power to go around the CONSTITUTION, which is nothing new every administration has been ignoring the CONSTITUTION for decades...

[Tired of Lies]

All they have to do is plug into the eschelon system; it's been doing that for many decades.

Isn't echelon invented and largely run by Israeli's? If so maybe they pulled the plug on cooperation with the white ouse until the Kenyan gets evicted.

[Grantbo]

Isn't echelon invented and largely run by Israeli's? If so maybe they pulled the plug on cooperation with the white ouse until the Kenyan gets evicted.

No, it's run by the NSA. There's a big base near where I live located at the Yakima Firing Center.

You should see the surrounding hills, forests of comm towers. Every thing electronic goes through this system: phone, computer, e-mail, sat, data links etc.

[Tired of Lies]

No, it's run by the NSA. There's a big base near where I live located at the Yakima Firing Center.

You should see the surrounding hills, forests of comm towers. Every thing electronic goes through this system: phone, computer, e-mail, sat, data links etc.

I know the NSA runs it but I remember reading an article about it and Israel owns alot of the patents on the hardware. Wouldn't put it past them to install a backdoor type of control mechanism for times such as these when we have a closet Muslim in the White House.

When we train foreign military pilots we don't teach them everything...hopefully Israel was thinking the same way.

[chicom]

They still have rules to follow (like the constitution) until Obama declares Marshal Law

I'm waiting for him to declare Marshal Dillon. That's my go time.