[107450] in Cypherpunks
Re: Echelon Targeting
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anonymous)
Thu Jan 14 12:31:32 1999
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 18:00:58 +0100
From: Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>
To: scoops@quiknet.com, cypherpunks@toad.com
Reply-To: Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>
It seems to me that once a target has been selected, there are better
methods than Echelon to scan/monitor those targets. Echelon seems
better suited for determining targets on a major scope of net traffic.
At 03:10 PM 1/13/99 -0800, scoops wrote:
>Does anyone know how many (as a percentage) targets for investigation are
>selected using Echelon processed data, as opposed to that percentage of
>targets that are selected prior to Echelon data processing? Is the primary
>area of interest military, goverment, industry, civilians?
>
>My hunch/hope is that it is rare that someone becomes a target for
>investigation based on routine Echelon processing. I think it is much more
>likely that a target or target group is pre-selected and then Echelon goes
>to work.
>
>I suppose another way to ask the question is -- was Echelon designed to
>ferret out new targets as its primary mission or as a secondary tool for
>follow-on tracking and investigation after a target has been selected?
