FBI set up an Internet communications control unit
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation has formed a special division of the Domestic Communications Assistance Center (DCAS), whose task is to develop and use software and hardware to monitor Internet communications.
On 4 May, the CNET resource published information that the Bureau “offers” a number of well-known social networks, VoIP communication providers, IM developers and email clients to integrate backdoors into their software in order to covertly monitor information exchange. This project is codenamed “The Dark Side of the Force” (Going dark) and was funded by the relevant US Senate Committee in the amount of $ 54 million. A little later, it turned out that Microsoft and Google completely rejected the proposal of secret agents.
The creation of DCAS, which is based at Quantico (adjacent to the FBI Academy and the Marine Corps Military Base) and formed at the expense of agents with special training, is called by many the continuation of the “Dark Side of Force” project mentioned above, the official beginning of which dates back to the last year when one of the FBI advisers Valerie Caproni ( Valerie Caproni ) in a report made before the senators, suggested that the FBI is in a position of constantly catching up and guessing, while all sorts of intruders use t all modern communications technologies wherever possible.
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It is curious that the FBI officially published a vacancy for specialists, which, apparently, were not found at Quantico or simply did not suffice. If someone wanted to receive about $ 140,000 a year and at the same time was a technical specialist in the development and support of IT systems, then until May 2 he would have a chance to work for the FBI with a work schedule from eight in the morning until half past four in the evening .
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On 4 May, the CNET resource published information that the Bureau “offers” a number of well-known social networks, VoIP communication providers, IM developers and email clients to integrate backdoors into their software in order to covertly monitor information exchange. This project is codenamed “The Dark Side of the Force” (Going dark) and was funded by the relevant US Senate Committee in the amount of $ 54 million. A little later, it turned out that Microsoft and Google completely rejected the proposal of secret agents.
The creation of DCAS, which is based at Quantico (adjacent to the FBI Academy and the Marine Corps Military Base) and formed at the expense of agents with special training, is called by many the continuation of the “Dark Side of Force” project mentioned above, the official beginning of which dates back to the last year when one of the FBI advisers Valerie Caproni ( Valerie Caproni ) in a report made before the senators, suggested that the FBI is in a position of constantly catching up and guessing, while all sorts of intruders use t all modern communications technologies wherever possible.
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It is curious that the FBI officially published a vacancy for specialists, which, apparently, were not found at Quantico or simply did not suffice. If someone wanted to receive about $ 140,000 a year and at the same time was a technical specialist in the development and support of IT systems, then until May 2 he would have a chance to work for the FBI with a work schedule from eight in the morning until half past four in the evening .
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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/144641/
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