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October 21st, 1999 is »Jam Echelon Day«.
Following some discussions on the Hacktivism mailing list, October 21st, 1999 was named »Jam Echelon Day«. This was significant because it marks both the first large scale grass-roots effort to »jam up« the works of the global surveillance system operated by the US/UK/Canadian/Australian/New Zealand Governments known as »Echelon« and because it co-incides with Stop Police Brutality Day.
While the goal of »jamming up« Echelon is a lofty and likely unattainable one, is it not better to signal displeasure at being monitored
than passively allow it to happen? We believe so. Privacy should not be something that's considered only after it's been breached.
This website was created with a dual purpose. The first is obviously to inform people about Echelon's existence and what things they can do (in theory) to »jam it up«, either by sending widely-known »trigger words« or (better yet) not allowing themselves to be subjected to random, anonymous eavesdropping by foreign powers. The secondary purpose of the site is to provide links to information and software that does just that – allows people to secure their email, networks, and operating systems with good practice and cryptographic software of such strength that easy decryption in a reasonable timeframe is not possible for any eavesdropper.
View the original release about »Jam Echelon Day« here The relevent part:
On October 21, 1999 , netizens around the globe are implored to send out at least one email with at least 50 keyword words. You need not be privy to knowing exactly what words Echelon uses. It is safe to assume that words such as »revolution« and »manifesto« and »revolt« [etc.] will work. Just be sure to sound as subversive as possible. [Try this]
The links of relevence to Jam Echelon Day are listed below, split into two sections:
1.Echelon-related Links – information about Echelon (background, jamming etc)
2.Privacy Software/Information Links – protect your privacy (encryption, other methods etc)
Echelon Links
The System
NSA technology description
Details of US Patent 5,418,951
Echelon – How it works
Report to European Parliament – by Duncan Campbell EuroParl Rpt on NSA, Trade, & Crypto Controls – Risks Digest coverage of Euro Parliament report jya.com – Links from John Youngs' excellent site
Background on the NSA – From JYA
The National Security Agency Established
Somebody's Listening (With Bibliography and Links)
House Committee to Hold Hearing on Echelon
Uncle Sam and his 40,000 snoopers – article, more background
Appraisal of the Technologies of Political Control
OTA Reports on Electronic Surveillance
The National Security Agency and 4th Amendment Rights-1 – US Senate Hearings
The National Security Agency and 4th Amendment Rights-2 – US Senate Hearings
Minutes of the European Parliament – Sept 14th, 1998
Echelon Agencies
US National Security Agency
Australian Defense Signals Directorate (DSD)
UK General Communications Headquarters (GCHQ)
NZ Government Communications Security Bureau
Related Organisations/Agencies/Units
CSE – Communications Security Establishment
451st Intelligence Squadron
Company C, Marine Support Battalion
Fort Meade
more info on Fort Meade
more info on Pine Gap
Yakima
FAS.Org: NSA
FAS.Org: GCHQ
FAS.Org: NATO
Photographs of monitoring stations
Pine Gap
Federation of American Scientists – pictures
Pine Gap pictures
fire.net.nz/echelon.htm – An overview and picture of Menwith Hill
Related News Articles
European Study Paints a Chilling Portrait of Technologys Uses – Requires Registration
Lawmakers Raise Questions About International Spy Network – Requires Registration
Spies like US
Spy Station F83
Cracking the Menwith Codes
Push for Hearings on ECHELON
Spying on the Spies
Hackers Ascend Upper 'Echelon'
Suddenly There Came a Tapping
Company Spies
Spy Satellites Enter New Dimension
With Echelon Who Needs Friends /SB
European Union and FBI Launch Global Surveillance System
www.webreview.com/96/01/12/features/nsa
Inter@ctive Week: Surveilling Surveillance
How the United States Spies on us all – Requires Registration
America's Spy in the Sky – background info on Echelon
Big Brother is Online – A CyberSociology article
Party Line – Civil LIberties article on Echelon
Despatches, BBC News – »Big Brother is watching« (BBC News)
Space Intelligence Technologys Embattled Frontier
Natl & Intl Comms Interceptions Networks – From Computer Underground Digest
ECHELON/apec1 – Bugging of the APEC Conference (1)
ECHELON/apec2 – Bugging of the APEC Conference (2)
ECHELON/apec3 – Bugging of the APEC Conference (3)
ECHELON/Overview – overview Document
Putting NSA under scrutiny – Requires Registration
NSA Accused of Forbidden Phone Taps – Requires Registration
CBC Newsworld Documentary – US Communication Interception
BT Condemned for Listing Cables to US SIGINT Station
The Global Surveillance System
U.S. Spy Agency Helped U.S. Companies Win Business Overseas
Spy Station F83
England's ground station Overwiew map
EU May Investigate US Global Spy Network
Related Literature
Exposing the Global Surveillence System
NSA'S BUSINESS PLAN: »GLOBAL ACCESS«
$pying for Uncle $am -Economic Intelligence
Insight On The News – Index
Did Clinton Bug Conclave for Cash? – From Insight on the News
Snoops, Sex and Videotape – From Insight on the News
Snooping on Allies Embarrasses U.S – From Insight on the News
The UKUSA Community
Granite Island Group
America's Secret Global Surveillance Network – An extensive paper on the issue
Inside America's Secret Court: The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court
Information on telephone eavesdropping
»Joined at the Hip« Intelligence Cooperation
Dirty Work: Project Echelon
Nelson, New Zealand: Craig Potton Publishing, 1996
Chapter 1 1984
Chapter 2 Hooked up to the spy network: the UKUSA system
Foreword by David Lange
Foreword by Jeffrey Richelson
FAS, Federation of American Scientists – Press Release
Confronting the New Intelligence Establishment: Lessons from the Colorado Experience
»NSA Electronic Surveillance: Selected Readings«
Original sources regarding the ECHELON sigint network
Wiretaps: Europe is launching a universal wiretap network
American Geosynchronous SIGINT Satellites
MERCURY [Advanced VORTEX]
The Puzzle Palace: A Report on America's Most Secret Agency – Chapter 8: Partners
The Puzzle Palace: A Report on America's Most Secret Agency – Chapter 9: Competition
The Puzzle Palace: A Report on America's Most Secret Agency – Chapter 10 : Abyss
The U.S. Intelligence Community – Chapter 8: Signals Intelligence
Deep Black: Space Espionage and National Security – Chapter 8: Foreign Bases: a Net Spread Wide
The U.S. Intelligence Community – Chapter 12: Exchange and Liasion Arrangements
Ramparts – U.S. Electronic Espionage: A Memoir
MI6 Directory – a disclosure of MI6 agents' names
List of MI6 Officers
Is the MI6 Spy List a True List?
General Echelon Resource Sites
antimedia.net/echelon/
Keywords used by Echelon
Related Legal Information
50 USC Sec. 1801
United States v. United States District Court – 1972 US Supreme Court case
Information in other languages
NRC Handelsblad – Codenaam Echelon – aud Deutsch
Das Ministerium fur Wahrheit – auf Deutsch
Medienpolitik – auf Deutsch
Un Systeme De Surveillance Mondial
USA driver e-spionasje ogsaa i Norge
c't 05/98, S. 82: Lauschangriff auf Telefon, Fax und EMail – auf Deutsch
US-Geheimdienst fängt europaweit EMails ab – auf Deutsch
Wirtschaftsspionage: Deutscher Innenminister unterstützt US-Geheimdienste – auf Deutsch
Privacy/Cryptography Links
(Still being added)
Software Resources
Open Security Solutions – secure, open source software solutions
GNU Privacy Guard – secure your email
PGPi – secure your email
Secure Shell – secure your telnet connections
OpenBSD – secure your operating system (use OpenBSD)
OpenSSL – secure your web server's communications
Fortify – upgrade your web browser to 128-bit (full strength)
128-bit browsers – download 128-bit web browsers (Australia)
128-bit browsers – download 128-bit web browsers (Netherlands)
WireTapped.Net – an archive of crypto etc (Australia)
Replay.com – an archive of crypto etc (Netherlands)
Freedom! – personal privacy software
General Resources
Info For the Masses – Session from Beyond HOPE '97 in RA format (download)
Bruce Schneier's »Crypto Gram« Newsletter – a monthly, email bulletin on computer security and cryptography
Electronic Privacy Information Center – Looking out for you...
Cryptography, Scientific Freedom and Human Rights – American Association for the Advancement of Science
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