Late last week Britain’s Parliament approved the Investigatory Powers Bill (IP Bill), triggering wails of protest from critics who immediately labeled the law “a privacy disaster” and “the most extreme surveillance law in the history of Western Democracy.” High on the list of complaints are the British law’s authorization of bulk metadata collection from any/all Internet … [Read more...]
Junos Packet Vision: Lawful Intercept or “California Dreamin’?”
C5IS reviews Junos Packet Vision, Juniper Networks' play in the CALEA compliance lawful intercept arena. Quiz time: Aside from making routers, what do Cisco, Juniper Networks and Hewlett-Packard have in common? Answer: The Big 3 router producers have all been hacked by the NSA at various times, all maintain a strong pro-privacy/anti-surveillance position - and even so, all … [Read more...]
Elbit Systems’ CYBERBIT: Not Your Father’s Lawful Intercept
When Israel's Elbit Systems purchased the Cyber and Intelligence Division of NICE Systems last year, Elbit's mission was to leverage the new asset to elevate its CYBERBIT subsidiary into a global powerhouse in two areas: cyber security for the enterprise, and lawful interception for government agencies and police. They've succeeded at both, and in remarkable ways. On the law … [Read more...]
TelcoBridges Lawful Intercept for VoIP – One Box to Rule Them All
TelcoBridges of Canada is a maker of hardware and software systems for communications service providers, with deployments in over 100 nations. Established in 2002, the company specializes in session border controllers (SBCs) and VoIP media control gateways (MCGs). Privately held TelcoBridges competes with renowned brands such as Sonus, Juniper, ASTRAN, Cisco, Oracle, Edgewater … [Read more...]
Golden Oldie: Cisco 6500 Still a Mainstay of Lawful Intercept
For all the public criticism Cisco levels at government surveillance, a key product -- the Cisco 6500 Router -- remains a bulwark of lawful intercept in the U.S. As the dominant provider of Internet service provider routers Cisco has little choice in the matter. As long as the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) remains the law of the land, all networks … [Read more...]