C5IS reviews Netcope, a maker of FPGA interface platforms for wire speed packet capture and filtering of 100G networks. Before getting in line to purchase ISS solutions capable of intercepting traffic on 100G Ethernet networks, it is wise to begin with a sanity check. Just how prevalent are 100G networks? Is the trend real or merely hype? The short answer is that 100G is … [Read more...]
Trovicor – Masters of End-to-End Lawful Intercept
Any time "Jersey" crops up in our location-tracing, we can say with certainty that the visitor is Trovicor, island king of lawful intercept and intelligence solutions that span that span the full gamut of requirements. Trovicor's footprint is a mile wide in the ISS marketplace, testimony to the company's prominence as one the oldest, best-established and most reliable providers … [Read more...]
Attack on France’s 2015 Intelligence Act Hits Mobile Monitoring
A court decision banning mobile monitoring undermines France's 2015 Intelligence Act - but the legal fight isn't over yet. European public furor over the UK's Investigatory Powers Act - approved by Parliament in November 2016 and blessed by the Queen shortly after - overshadowed controversy on surveillance law in a nearby country arguably the most severely impacted by recent … [Read more...]
Italy’s iPS – From Lawful Intercept to Dark Web
Founded in the year 2000, iPS is one of two companies operated by the RESI Group, a holding company based in Aprilia, Italy. The other half is RESI, a network management systems and cybersecurity business that dates to 1987. The fraternal twins share a single campus in Aprilia, top global clients like Telecom Italia and Deutsche Telekom, and a sizable in-house R & D team … [Read more...]
Tor OONIprobe Mobile App Outs Censorship and Surveillance
The Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI), an affiliate of the Tor project, has released a mobile app called OONIprobe that lets Android and iOS users test to see if they are blocked from visiting specific websites, and if their device is subject to "equipment interference" by government or law enforcement agencies using surveillance technologies. The OONIprobe mobile … [Read more...]