[iwar] Indian Carnivore? / Echelon?

From: Ravi V Prasad (r_v_p@yahoo.com)
Date: 2001-12-24 07:38:19


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Subject: [iwar] Indian Carnivore? / Echelon?
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Has India already implemented a Carnivore? Will it
work?

Read the full article at IndiaTimes at

http://news.indiatimes.com/articleshow.asp?art_id=37906058

Ravi V Prasad

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Email users beware, Big Brother is watching 

 
SIDDHARTH SRIVASTAVA

TIMES NEWS NETWORK 
 
EW DELHI: The Intelligence Bureau (IB) has prepared a
list of new keywords that are to be used to intercept
mails emanating from IP addresses in India. 

The move comes after investigations have revealed that
Mohammad alias 'Burger,' who led the Parliament
attack, was in constant touch with his counterparts in
Pakistan as well as within India through email. 

A laptop has been recovered from the terrorists as
well, the contents of which are under investigation.
The IB earlier reported that terrorists connected to
the Lashkar-e-Taiba and the Jaish are tech-savvy. 

Till now, the IB had concentrated more on email IDs
with reference to obvious giveaways such as Kashmir,
Lashkar, Pakistan, Musharraf etc. For example, an
email ID such as Lashkar@hotmail.com should be under
the surveillance of the IB.

The IB has now gone further and prepared a new list of
keywords used in the copy of mails that will be
intercepted.

The system works like this: A software filters mails
that repeatedly use the words that the IB has
shortlisted. The more obvious keywords would include
Jaish, Kashmir, Lashkar. Others are attack, kill,
rocket. Mails with repeated reference to Arab names
will also be under surveillance. 

Emails that carry names of Indian political leaders
will also be under surveillance. However, the software
can't decipher code words since they can be common
words. Interestingly, the CIA is using the same
software with a good success rate.

"The task of monitoring such mails is humungous.
Hence, for now, we will be monitoring mails that have
several references to the keywords that we have
identified," says a senior IB official.

According to the official: "The IB is the only Indian
intelligence Agency that has the ability to intercept
mails. None of the other agencies involved in
investigations—the Delhi Police, the Central Bureau of
Investigation (CBI), Research and Analysis Wing
(RAW)—have the ability to intercept mails. Only the
CIA has similar capabilities."

Commenting on the issue of invasion of privacy of an
individual, the official said: "This exercise is
similar to the secret cellphone tapping of suspects
involved in hawala as well as cricket match-fixing,
that was implemented by the Delhi Police. It met with
a lot of success. The issue of intercepting mail is
being done in the interest of national security."

The official, however, also admitted that the exercise
of intercepting mails will present a logistical
nightmare given the huge mass of mails emanating from
India. 

Read the full article at
http://news.indiatimes.com/articleshow.asp?art_id=37906058


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