Tempest And Echelon | Electronics Seminar Topic
Tempest And Echelon
Interception of communications is a method of spying
commonly employed by intelligence services, whereas there can now be no doubt
that the purpose of the system is to intercept, at the very least, private and
commercial communications, and not military communications, although the
analysis carried out in the report has revealed that the technical capabilities
of the system are probably not nearly as extensive as some sections of the
media had assumed.
Interception of messages is the major work for the
intelligence agencies all over the world, to keep track of the spies and
terrorists for preserving the security of the country from the leaking of
sensitive documents and the terrorist attacks. By the work of the intelligence
agencies the government is ensuring the security of the state.
For that we have
to enable our intelligence agencies with modern technologies like USA. For that
we must setup an interception system. While developing this we have to consider
about the privacy of common people and industrial organization.
The targets for the ECHELON system developed by the NSA are
apart from directing their ears towards terrorists and rogue states; ECHELON is
also being used for purposes well outside its original mission.
In America the
regular discovery of domestic surveillance targeted at American civilians for
reasons of “unpopular” political affiliation or for no probable cause at all in
violation of the First, Fourth and Fifth Amendments of the Constitution of
America– are consistently impeded by very elaborate and complex legal arguments
and privilege claims by the intelligence agencies and the US government.
