Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Echelon--Top-Secret Intelligence System


Questions:

1. Are you for or againts the use of Echelon for eavesdropping on electronic communications? Why or Why not? Is your opinion affected by the terrorist attacks of September 11?

answer: For me I'm not against the use of Echelon, because this eavesdropping project will be an effective tool in trapping enormous crimes that happens in the world. But I'm not infavor aside from the illegal use of this Echelon, because this function is intended only for criminals not for divulging any confidential information.

2. Develop a set of plausible conditions under which the directors of Echelon would authorize using the system to listen to specific electronic communications.

answer: a. It must be use only in trapping crime communications.
b. Only allowed to conject some reports that is with a evidence.
c. Must not be use for some illegal sharing of Information.

3. What sort of expanded or new capabilities might Echelon develop in the next 10 years as information technology continues to improve? What additional privacy issues might be raised by these new capabilities?

answer: To the next future ten years echelon can already handle laguages such as Arabic and Chinese, because from now on they are enhancing the echelon to handle and understand different languages.

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