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Echelon Speech By Duncan Campbell

Posted by michael on from the IPSEC dept.

Yet another anonymous reader sends the following: "Dr. Dobb's Technetcast is carrying an informative presentation about the Echelon intelligence gathering system by Duncan Campbell an investigative reporter who wrote one of the first reports about the system in 1988."

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  1. While I can understand... by Goldberg's+Pants · · Score: 2
    the govt. wanting to keep tabs on the country with snooping like this to stop potential terrorists, one thing that just occured to me is what happens if you piss off someone who works on the Echelon project? I mean it's bad enough if you piss a friend off who know some of your secrets it's bad enough that your secrets get spread, but if you piss off someone involved in Echelon they could REALLY screw you over. While I agree that govts. should prevent terrorism any way they can (growing up in England I grew up with IRA pricks blowing up my country) the potential for abuse of Echelon is just FAR to great.

    I know this isn't entirely on topic with the story, but I just made a mental note of which friends may be involved with the project. Scary.

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  2. more Echelon articles... by ATKeiper · · Score: 2
    We have a detailed archive of Echelon articles on our "Who Watches the Web?" page:
    http://www.tecsoc.org/persec/webwatch/echelon.htm

    A. Keiper
    The Center for the Study of Technology and Society
    Washington, D.C.