Singapore implements network monitoring system
Singapore plans to introduce an integrated Internet monitoring system, which theoretically could collect and analyze information, while identifying possible threats to national security.
The project, as reported by Wired News, was called RAHS (short for Risk Assessment and Horizon Scanning, which can be translated as “System of risk assessment and network space scanning”). The initiative is very much like the Total Information Awareness program, launched in the United States a few years ago. The Total Information Awareness project envisaged the creation of a special system that would allow tracking financial transactions, the movement of people across the United States and analyze email. However, the TIA project was sharply criticized by privacy advocates, and as a result, its funding was discontinued.
The architecture of the RAHS system will be different from the architecture of Total Information Awareness. It is assumed that the new set of security will allow to identify links between certain events and information on the Internet. This, in particular, should facilitate the disclosure of conspiracies, impending terrorist acts, and so on. At the initial stage, the Risk Assessment and Horizon Scanning system will link five government agencies. In the future, the complex will monitor and collect information in the computer networks of all government organizations in Singapore.
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It should be added that the global Internet monitoring system is currently being developed in the United States. The project was named ADVISE, and most of the information about it is still classified.
The project, as reported by Wired News, was called RAHS (short for Risk Assessment and Horizon Scanning, which can be translated as “System of risk assessment and network space scanning”). The initiative is very much like the Total Information Awareness program, launched in the United States a few years ago. The Total Information Awareness project envisaged the creation of a special system that would allow tracking financial transactions, the movement of people across the United States and analyze email. However, the TIA project was sharply criticized by privacy advocates, and as a result, its funding was discontinued.
The architecture of the RAHS system will be different from the architecture of Total Information Awareness. It is assumed that the new set of security will allow to identify links between certain events and information on the Internet. This, in particular, should facilitate the disclosure of conspiracies, impending terrorist acts, and so on. At the initial stage, the Risk Assessment and Horizon Scanning system will link five government agencies. In the future, the complex will monitor and collect information in the computer networks of all government organizations in Singapore.
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It should be added that the global Internet monitoring system is currently being developed in the United States. The project was named ADVISE, and most of the information about it is still classified.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/5806/
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