Re: Political Analysis of Security Products

[Patrick Oonk <patrick () pine nl>]

On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 09:39:04PM +0000, Rainer Duffner wrote:
> R. DuFresne writes:
>
> > Marcus Ranum, if I recall correctly, has an outstanding reward for
> > anyone with proof that fw-1 was ever backdoored by the Israeli's, it
> > has never bee collected
 
> Danger is not on this front.
> The soft- and hardware to control the suveillance of telephone-calls
> is partly built by companies that are either subcontractor of Mossad
> or are rumoured to be "controlled" by Mossad.
> TELCOs are concered by this, because, at least in Germany, every TELCO
> has to have a wiretap-mechanism in place for Secret Service or other
> Police-Forces.
> These wiretaps must be (qua definitionem) undetectable by the victim
> when used, and undetectable by the TELCO itself !
> If one of these devices were backdoored (by an "enemy force"), the
> integrity of the whole telecommunication infrastructure would be, well,
> non-existant.
> Of couse, the TELCOs also (or mostly, let's be honest) the high costs
> associated with this system. 
>
> I have no direct (English) link for this,
> just this one:
> http://www.heise.de/tp/deutsch/html/result.xhtml?url=/tp/deutsch/inhalt/te/9 
> 395/1.html&words=Geheimdienst 
> but surf around the Heise
> Telepolis site and get a feeling of just what is in stock for us... 
>
> http://www.heise.de/tp/english/special/enfo/default.html 

<helicopters type=black> An Israeli company (Comverse) has worked together 
with the Mossad to tap the US govt according to a Foxnews report. 
I have collected links to the coverage of this at
http://www.security.nl/artikel.php3?id=2712. The article is in Dutch but
the links lead to english articles. The strange thing was that no-one
picked this news up, except for Foxnews. The coverage at Foxnews
'suddenly' disappeared. </helicopters>

        Patrick

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