L’#industrie multimilliardaire de la surveillance
The data hackers, by Pratap Chatterjee
▻http://mondediplo.com/openpage/the-data-hackers
▻http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175757
“The challenge of managing information has become the challenge of managing the light” (Glimmerglass)
Trois types d’entreprises font du #data-mining ou #DPI, autant de légions de la #silicon_army :
– les services-gratuits-vous-le-produit
– les #data_brokers
– les entreprises spécialisées dans la surveillance
[this] category is made up of professional #surveillance companies. They generally work for or sell their products to the government — in other words, they are paid with our tax dollars — but we have no control over them. Harris Corporation provides technology to the FBI to track, via our mobile phones, where we go; #Glimmerglass builds tools that the U.S. intelligence community can use to intercept our overseas calls; and companies like James Bimen Associates design software to hack into our computers.
▻http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15665
▻http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904194604576583112723197574.html
▻http://www.glimmerglass.com/products/intelligent-optical-systems
►http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15864
Glimmerglass donc, dont certaines technologies (“210 tiny gold-coated mirrors mounted on microscopic hinges etched on to a single wafer of silicon. It can help transmit data as beams of light across the undersea fiber optic cables”) permettent de surveiller l’#internet_traffic qui transite par les #câbles_sous-marins :
▻http://www.wikileaks.org/spyfiles/docs/glimmerglass/55_glimmerglass-cybersweep.html
Pour les communications via #mobile :
The simplest form of surveillance technology is an IMSI catcher. (IMSI stands for International Mobile Subscriber Identity, which is unique to every mobile phone.) (...) One of the key players in this field is the Melbourne, Florida-based Harris Corporation, which has been awarded almost $7 million in public contracts by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (#FBI) since 2001, mostly for radio communication equipment. For years, the company has also designed software for the agency’s National Crime Information Center to track missing persons, fugitives, criminals, and stolen property.
Harris was recently revealed to have designed an IMSI catcher for the FBI that the company named “Stingray.” Court testimony by FBI agents has confirmed the existence of the devices dating back to at least 2002. Other companies like James Bimen Associates of Virginia have allegedly designed custom software to help the FBI hack into people’s computers, according to research by Chris Soghoian of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
SS8 of Milpitas, California, sells software called #Intellego that claims to allow government agencies to “see what [the targets] see, in real time”
Cf. ▻http://seenthis.net/messages/176446
Take #Raytheon, a major U.S. military manufacturer, which makes Sidewinder air-to-air missiles, Maverick air-to-ground missiles, Patriot surface-to-air missiles, and Tomahawk submarine-launched cruise missiles.
[en vidéo] ▻http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2013/feb/10/raytheon-software-tracks-online-video