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IP: Russian Internet Wiretapping Project
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Hettinga)
Sun Sep 5 14:35:13 1999
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Source: Moscow Libertarium
http://www.libertarium.ru/eng/sorm/index.html
-- Moscow Libertarium --
SORM - Russian Internet Wiretapping Project
Russian FSB (Federal Security Service, successor to KGB) is preparing
regulations and technical requirements to facilitate field operative
work in computer networks. SORM (in Russian - System for Conduct of
Investigations and Field Operations) is a set of regulations and
technological equipment facilitating access of FSB to all computer
communications and internal documents of telecom providers (including
phone and internet companies). The technology provides an effective
mechanism to by-pass a Constitutionally required process of court
authorization for wire-tapping of electronic communications.
Government Internet Regulation. By Aleksey Solov'ev (c) 1997
http://www.design.ru/solo/vd/internet/net06.html
Original drafts of SORM documents (version of July 22, 98) <prosecutor.txt>
http://www.libertarium.ru/eng/sorm/sormdocengl.html
Russian Prosecutors Support Illegal Survelliance
http://www.libertarium.ru/eng/sorm/volgograd.txt
New Zealand activist Craig Carey starts SORM page:
http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/research/sorm.htm
SURFING WITH THE KGB. Big Brother covets all the E-mail (by Christian
Caryl, U.S.News, Science 9/14/98).
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/980914/14key.htm
Russian Web site fights government monitoring effort - CNN, August
11, 1998, from Correspondent Mike Hanna (with photos and video).
http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9808/11/russia.big.brother/index.html
In Russia: Digital eavesdropping? (Jeanette Borzo, Computerworld, 10
Aug, 1998).
http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/9808106156/
Russia builds a velvet curtain online (Daily news, 10 August, 1998,
Internet Magazine).
http://www.internet-magazine.com/news/aug/10a.htm
Russian Legislation Strikes Fear on the Net (By Jeanette Borzo, IDG
News, August 05, 1998). Extensive review of SORM.
http://www.thestandard.net/articles/news_display/0,1270,1300,00.html
A comment on SORM from a high rank World Bank official (3 Aug. '98)
http://www.libertarium.ru/eng/sorm/engwb.html
Russia Considering Internet Surveillance Policy. Proposal would allow
government to eavesdrop on all digital communication passing through
Russian ISPs. By Jeanette Borzo, IDG News Service, Paris Bureau (via
PCWORLD 29 Jul. '98).
http://www.pcworld.com/pcwtoday/article/0,1510,7616,00.html
Cyberspies Spin Russian Web; Russian FAPSI is NSA Counterpart
(<http://www.times.spb.ru>The St. Petersburg Times, July 24, 1998).
http://www.libertarium.ru/eng/sorm/press/spbt.html
Russia Prepares To Police Internet (<http://www.moscowtimes.ru>The
Moscow Times, Wednesday, July 29, 1998, By Julia Solovyova, Staff
Writer).
http://www.libertarium.ru/eng/sorm/press/mt.html
KGB spins its Web even in afterlife -- JPG file, 197 Kb -- (James
Meek, Guardian Newspaper (UK), 21st July 98).
The Guardian is a major daily UK national newspaper renowned for its
independent thinking.
http://www.libertarium.ru/eng/sorm/press/guardian.jpg
Online version:
http://www.mercurycenter.com/breaking/headline2/065854.htm>http://www.
mercurycenter.com/breaking/headline2/065854.htm.
Russia may force ISPs to tip Big Brother (Tasty Bits from the
Technology Front, 29 June, 98) - they were the first in the West to
publish these news.
http://www.tbtf.com/archive/06-29-98.html
They have similar problems in US!
<http://www.calea.org/>CALEA Project
And a large set of comments on it at
http://www.jya.com/usta-v-fbi.htm
http://www.jya.com/fbi-calea99.htm
http://www.calea.org/an-reprt.htm
http://www.usta.org/calea1.html
http://www.cdt.org/digi_tele/FCC911.html
Information Superspyway. How the FBI's plan to create a nationwide
wiretapping network brought together unlikely allies.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdtv/cda/index/0,2073,2134763-2103615,00.html
And in Thailand:
Internet Freedom In Thailand: The Royal Thai Police Department's
mounting frustration with its inability to monitor the online
activities of Thai internet users has prompted the department to
insist that Internet Service Providers give them access to tracking
information about their users.
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/special/freedom/
Coordinator of SORM project at Moscow Libertarium: <mailto:liberty@ice.ru>
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