Point, Click . . . Eavesdrop: How the FBI Wiretap Net Operates
Ryan Singel, Wired News
The EFF obtained documents through the Freedom of Information Act revealing the inner workings of the FBI's Digital Collection System Network (DCSNet), a software suite that allows the Bureau to conduct surveillance on a wide variety of digital devices. The documents have helped researchers analyze the security implications of the system.
The FBI has quietly built a sophisticated, point-and-click surveillance system that performs instant wiretaps on almost any communications device, according to nearly a thousand pages of restricted documents newly released under the Freedom of Information Act.
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Many of the details of the system and its full capabilities were redacted from the documents acquired by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, but they show that DCSNet includes at least three collection components, each running on Windows-based computers.
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