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Espionage
frequently involves
an individual
obtaining (i.e., using human
intelligence or HUMINT methods)
information that is considered secret
or confidential without the permission of the holder of the information. Espionage
is inherently clandestine,
as the legitimate holder of the information may change plans or take other countermeasures
once it is known that the information is in unauthorized hands. See this link
on HUMINT
for the basic concepts of such information
collection, and subordinate articles such as clandestine HUMINT operational techniques
and clandestine HUMINT asset
recruiting for discussions of the "tradecraft" used to collect this information.
Signals
intelligence or SIGINT
is intelligence-gathering by interception
of signals, whether between people (i.e., COMINT
or communications intelligence) or between machines (i.e., ELINT
or electronic
intelligence), or mixtures of the two.
As sensitive information
is often encrypted, signals
intelligence often involves the use of cryptanalysis. However, traffic
analysis, the study of who is signaling whom and in what quantity, can often produce
valuable
information, even when the messages themselves cannot be decrypted.
There
are numerous technological
ways for countries to spy
on each other without ever sending an actual spy
to collect information. Satellites equipped with cameras have been tracking
the positions of military units since the 1960s. At first, the satellite would
drop a bucket with the film inside over the ocean. In 1970, digital film technology
was first developed, allowing the satellites to transmit the photographic data
by radio. Today's UAV's
and spy satellites can take photographs with a high enough resolution to read
the headline on a newspaper.
On January 18, 2009, United Launch Alliance’s
Delta IV Heavy rocket carrying a payload
for the National Reconnaissance Office successfully lifted off from Space Launch
Complex 37 at CCAFS
at 9:47 p.m. EST (0247 UTC) on January 18, 2009. A more recent development has
NSA Whistleblower Russel Tice, who back in 2006 had exposed the NSA
program illegalities, stating publically
that the Bush administration was spying on and targeting
journalists and had access to all Americans phone calls, emails and computer communications.
This documentary
explains how the CIA
pioneered, developed, manipulated prisoner abuse, sold drugs, changed regimes
and killed millions of people worldwide.
COINTELPRO Revisited Spying and Disruption
"COINTELPRO"
was the FBI's secret program to undermine the popular upsurge which swept the
country during the 1960s. Though the name stands for "Counterintelligence Program,"
the targets were not enemy spies. The FBI
set out to eliminate "radical" political opposition inside the US. When traditional
modes of repression
(exposure, blatant harassment, and prosecution for political crimes) failed to
counter the growing insurgency, and even helped to fuel it, the Bureau took the
law into its own hands and secretly used fraud and force to sabotage constitutionally-protected
political activity. Its methods ranged far beyond surveillance, and amounted to
a domestic version of the covert
action for which the CIA has become infamous throughout the world. [See: CIA's
spy tools] In recent decades social control
has become more specialized and technical and, in many ways, more penetrating
and intrusive.
Spread of Industrial Espionage
With the advent of modern technology, the
methods
employed have also improved. The invention of the mini spy
camera has pushed industrial
espionage to new heights (or lows, depending on how you look at it), such that
it is virtually
impossible to prevent intellectual property theft. Thanks to innovation and technology
loss prevention Security Systems are getting much better. There are now new systems,
which have audio
plus video, which increases the effectiveness of the Security System. Indeed,
the detection of Internet spies is easier compared to spies who use mini spy cameras
to record confidential information. [See: Industrial
espionage]
Cell Phones
Long gone are the days of simple wiretapping, when the worst
your phone could do was let someone listen
in to your conversations. The new generation of cell phone spying tools provides
a lot more power. Eavesdropping
is easy. All it takes is a two-minute software install and someone can record
your calls and monitor your text messages. They can even set up systems to be
automatically alerted when you dial a certain number, then instantly patched into
your conversation. Anyone who can perform a basic Internet search can find the
tools and figure out how to do it in no time. But the scarier stuff is what your
phone can do when you aren’t even using it. Let’s start with your location.
[See:
Monitoring
your life through your cellphone]
Technology of Repression
In its final months, the Bush
administration is pressing ahead with a new generation of spy
technology designed to strengthen the US military’s ability to detect and eliminate
suspected insurgents in Iraq and elsewhere based on computer
analyses of their movements and activities. The Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research
Projects Agency (DARPA)
has begun granting contracts to software firms to create algorithms
that can be applied to the real-time video feeds from drone aircraft so the data
can be sorted and stored on a wide range of human activities, from digging a ditch
to climbing into a car to kissing someone.
[See: Culture
of Corruption]
RFID Chips
Retailers
would create databases linking individual RFID
chips to consumers at the point of purchase, creating a database of what each
person bought which would allow businesses or governments to keep tabs
on every individual passing through a given area. The technology
to accomplish this tracking, Albrecht says, has already been developed. Where
can RFID chips be found? As RFID chips become cheaper, the number of devices that
include them grows. The Radar Responsive (RR)
technology was developed for the US Military at Sandia
National Laboratories in the 1990s and is now used to avoid 'friendly fire'.
[See:
Where
can RFID chips be found]
[See: RFID
1984]
[See: Nox
Defense chips (even RFID Dust) for tracking property and people]
Google
Google
has been recruited by US intelligence agencies to help them better process and
share
information they gather
about suspects. Agencies
such as the National Security Agency have bought servers
on which Google-supplied search technology
is used to process information
gathered by networks of spies around the world. Google
is also providing the search features
for a Wikipedia-style site, called Intellipedia,
on which agents post
information about their targets that can be accessed and appended by colleagues,
according to the San Francisco Chronicle. [See: Phorm
tracking, like the ill-fated NebuAd]
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