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Irish equivilant to Echelon

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  • 04-02-2004 2:20pm
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    wild_eyed
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    is there an irish equivilant to Echelon?


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    yellum
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    Originally posted by wild_eyed
    is there an irish equivilant to Echelon?

    As in the crowd that monitor communications ? I doubt it as the idea of an "intelligence community" is unheard of in Ireland.


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    telemekus
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    Yes, it called gossip!


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    wild_eyed
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    can echelon monitor everything? i.e. data going from pc to yellum's


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    spongebob
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    Originally posted by wild_eyed
    is there an irish equivilant to Echelon?

    Yes, in the Phoenix Park Depot.

    M


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    theciscokid
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    Ireland is part of the Echelon project and has been for some time now..

    the inauguration was back in dublin castle at the International Law Enforcement
    Telecommunications Seminar (ILETS)

    There is a satellite uplink station in middleton county cork..owned by eircom that sniffs everything!


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    parasite
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    there's also the 3 year data retention act :(


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    bizmark
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    err what has this to do with broadband ?


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    wild_eyed
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    Originally posted by theciscokid
    Ireland is part of the Echelon project and has been for some time now..

    the inauguration was back in dublin castle at the International Law Enforcement
    Telecommunications Seminar (ILETS)

    There is a satellite uplink station in middleton county cork..owned by eircom that sniffs everything!

    :eek: wow :eek: , i didnt know that, v interesting.............
    thank you very much.


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    theciscokid
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    well its a surfing issue :p #

    by the way www.echelonwatch.org is a site to watch umm, yeah

    not too long ago you may have heard the codename "steaknife" that was a suspected ira or informer etc..

    that was on echelon's list of words, (a few years old now) i ain't going to post a list of them, google it , its not that hard to find!


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    wild_eyed
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    http://archives.tcm.ie/irishexaminer/2001/05/30/story4230.asp

    this is good.


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    wild_eyed
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    Originally posted by bizmark
    err what has this to do with broadband ?

    i thought it was more relevant in broadband, because more and more people are opting for broadband's always on connection and these are issues that may predominately effect them in the future.


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    bizmark
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    It’s more suited here

    Though I personal just see some people on about a conspiracy
    :dunno:


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    jmcc
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    Originally posted by Muck
    Yes, in the Phoenix Park Depot.

    I still remember the time they turned on the Green Man system and knocked out TV reception in half of Limerick. :) In terms of comms, there are a number of interested government agencies and the military also has an intelligence arm. Ireland has always been a major part of the West's communication infrastructure. Even the weather forecast that gave the go-ahead for D-Day came from Ireland.

    Actually most of the comms systems in use are amazingly easy to tap and the encryption being used is trivial (eg GSM) for a state level organisation to break. Speaking as someone working for NSA.ie of course. ;)

    Regards...jmcc@nsa.ie


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    Rew
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    Originally posted by yellum
    As in the crowd that monitor communications ? I doubt it as the idea of an "intelligence community" is unheard of in Ireland.

    You would be very silly to think that Ireland dosn't have a very well devloped "intelligence community". The reason the brits have one has a lot to do with NI and same goes for us. We have specfic Army and Garda intelligance units and a special cross over between the two. From what little iv heard they are very good at what they do.


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