Echelon – World Spy Network Exposed
Multi-national, industrial espionage facilities keep track of global electronic data transfer. Tools of today’s Orwellian world.
| Echelon, under U.S.’s NSA and other world superpowers, can intercept two billion phone calls per day, along with faxes and e-mails and other electronic communications. |  translate
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Ground Microwave
InterceptionThis one is a little trickier. Much of our regional communications travels through ground based microwave towers. You have probably seen the towers along the highway, with a bunch of cornucopia shaped antennas on them. Each of those antennas is a directional link to another tower (usually about 25 miles away). Although the signal is directional, that does not mean that 100% of the signal is caught by the receiving antenna. In fact, much less than 1% is usually received by the receiving antenna. The rest of the signal continues on in a straight line into space. The diagram below shows how a signal sent between two ground based microwave towers can be intercepted by a satellite.
We know that any “commercial” satellite within 8 degrees of the target can pick up enough of the signal to be useful. Of course, ECHELON does not use “commercial” satellites. We can only hypothesize on how sensitive their “spy” satellites are. Even with only an 8 degree limit, just one spy satellite can monitor hundreds of ground microwave towers at once.
Official website: http://www.echelon.com/
Eavesdropping 101: What Can The NSA Do?
The recent revelations about illegal eavesdropping on American citizens by the U.S. National Security Agency have raised many questions about just what the agency is doing. Although the facts are just beginning to emerge, information that has come to light about the NSA’s activities and capabilities over the years, as well as the recent reporting by the New York Times and others, allows us to discern the outlines of what they are likely doing and how they are doing it.
IKE SEAMANS DID THE FIRST TV STORY ON THE NSA’S SPY NETWORK CALLED “ECHLEON”, with the exclusive help of former spy Mike Frost. Echelon is a U.S.-led global spy network that secretly gathers up to 3 billion communications daily:telephone calls, e-mails, faxes and Internet downloads of public and private organizations and citizens worldwide. After seeing this report aired originally on WTVJ Miami, 60 Minutes followed with its an Echelon featuring Mike Frost.
Conclusion
The technology to enable large scale automated monitoring of our personal communications is not only available, but is being used against us on a daily basis.
If your conversation, fax or email triggers any one of the automatic mechanisms, it is forwarded to a human analyst for determination. If you have said anything in that communication that could remotely indicate that you may be about to break or might have already broken a law and that communication was received outside the USA, that information is forwarded to the appropriate US agency for handling. This effectively subverts the 4th Amendment’s guarantee “against unreasonable searches and seizures
Wow, this is amazing. its very interesting how it works.