Utländska företag och libyisk internetövervakning

Wall Street Journal har en intressant artikel om företag som byggt upp libyisk internetövervakning. Boeings dotterföretag Narus dyker ofta upp, även i detta fall. Får lägga till franska Amesys, kinesiska ZTE och sydafrikanska VASTech till listan. Amesys verkar ha en produkt som kallas "Eagle". I artikeln står följande.

Whereas many Internet interception systems carry out basic filtering on IP address and extract only those communications from the global flow (Lawful Interception), EAGLE Interception system analyses and stores all the communications from the monitored link (Massive interception).

On its website, Amesys says its "strategic nationwide interception" system can detect email from Hotmail, Yahoo and Gmail and see chat conversations on MSN instant messaging and AIM. It says investigators can "request the entire database" of Internet traffic "in real time" by entering keywords, email addresses or the names of file attachments as search queries.

Av artikeln framgår det att VASTech tjänst "Zebra" kan användas för trafikanalys, dvs kartläggning av individer, nätverk, grupper och organisationer.

A description of the company's Zebra brand surveillance product, prepared for a trade show, says it "captures and stores massive volumes of traffic" and offers filters that agents can use to "access specific communications of interest from mountains of data." Zebra also features "link analysis," the description says, a tool to help agents identify relationships between individuals based on analysis of their calling patterns.