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Want to know the hardware behind Echelon?

Uncle Sam using Texas’ SAM.

By Chris Mellor, Techworld

You’ve probably heard about Echelon, the vast listening system run by the US, UK, Canada and Australia that scans the world’s voice traffic looking for key words and phrases.

Aside from using the system for industrial espionage and bypassing international and national laws to listen in on people, it is also used to listen out for people like Osama bin Laden and assorted terrorists in the hope of preventing attacks.

All this is out in the relative open thanks to investigative journalists and a European Commission report into the system, concerned and annoyed that the Brits and Yanks has got there first.

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