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Date: 2000-09-02
RU: SORM implementiert, ISPs zahlen-.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- nagelneues Überwachungssystem, das heisst, sie werden es sich halt leisten müssen. Dort geschieht dies wenigstens so halbwegs rüpelhaft, nämlich ganz offen durch die Geheimdienste. Im hochzivilisierten EU-Kulturraum besorgt diese Drecksarbeit ein Standardisierungsinstitut mit Namen ETSI in einem technischen Komitee namens SEC wie Security, Unterabteilung LI, wie "lawful interception". Dort tagen die Kollaborateure - die großen EU-Telekoms und ihre Ausrüster Alcatel, Comverse, Ericsson, Motorola, Nokia, Nortel, Siemens und andere - mit den so genannten "gesetzlich ermächtigten Behörden". Wobei die Polizei den Diensten die Mauer macht, um selber angemessen am Info/flusse zu partizipieren. -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- Saint Petersburg Times September 1, 2000 NEWSPhone-Tapping Law Clears Final Hurdle By Masha Kaminskaya STAFF WRITERThe Communications Ministry has issued an order implementing a last stage for the installation of bugging equipment on all Russian phone networks, giving security services the unrestricted right to tap into any conversation. However, the news - which has aroused the indignation of the media and civil-rights advocates - is but the final point in a five-year-old project to monitor communications more closely on the part of the Federal Security Service, or FSB. "It is a mystery to me why everyone is making so much noise [about it] now, and not when all this began," said Yury Vdovin, vice president of the St. Petersburg-based human-rights group Citizen's Watch, which is preparing to file a lawsuit with the Constitutional Court demanding an investigation of laws regulating the installation of tapping equipment.The new order, issued by the Communications Ministry on July 25, summarizes all previous documents on communications interception in Russia, which have gone under the general label of SORM. SORM - which stands for System for Operational- Investigative Activities - was introduced in 1995. A similar Internet-tapping system, SORM-2, appeared in 1999.According to federal law, it is the responsibility of all communications operators to facilitate tapping for the FSB and the police. Since 1995, all phone networks in Russia - state-owned or private, ordinary or cell-phone systems - have had listening equipment installed and running. Operators who do not meet SORM regulations are denied licenses by the Communications Ministry."All principal regulations relating to SORM remain the same in the [new] order," said Vyacheslav Oranzhereyev, head of communications security at the Communications Ministry. "All we did was clarify the [financial relations] between communications operators and law enforcement officers."According to Oranzhereyev, the one piece of news is that all SORM maintenance expenses - including, partly, the installation of channels that connect phone and Internet networks to the security services - will now officially be the responsibility of the operators.That, however, was hardly news to telephone operators."We have seen no changes in working with SORM [with this new order]," said Alexander Manoshkin, a public-relations specialist at the Moscow Cell Communications company."We have had SORM [equipment installed] since 1995, when it became a necessary condition for [licensed activity on the market]," said Alexei Ionov, a spokesman for the St. Petersburg-based NorthWest GSM company. "All SORM expenses, if there are any, have always been met by us."Gennady Sokolovsky, a technical director for Peterstar Telecommunications, also said that his company's maintenance expenses on SORM would in no way affect customers' fees - another area of concern for opponents of the project.As for SORM's legality, Vdovin said that this question should have been addressed five years ago. While they are not a direct violation of the right to privacy, he said, the SORM regulations as a whole create the opportunity for unsanctioned limitations of that right.The FSB, police and tax police are obliged by law to get a warrant before they can bug telephone conversations or read e-mail, fax or pager messages.However, said Vdovin, another article in the same law "leaves all tapping devices in the hands of the security services," making it virtually impossible to monitor what they are doing."There is not a single guarantee that a police sergeant will not listen to my conversations or look into my correspondence to, say, blackmail me for having a mistress," said Vdovin. "How about banks being unable to keep commercial information secret?""[Given SORM's] technical requirements, you will never know if your conversations are being listened to with a warrant," said Anatoly Levenchuk, project coordinator for human-rights watchdog Moscow Libertarium.FSB officials failed to respond to faxed questions or phone calls.Analogous wiretap systems used by the FBI and other secret services have long caused concern among human-rights advocates in the West.The U.S. National Security Agency's Echelon project - used to monitor and store e-mail and other electronic communications around the world - though still highly secretive, is infamous for circumventing legal procedures.And a recent study published in the United States said that the FBI has more than quadrupled its intelligence officers and nearly doubled the number of wiretaps and break-ins since 1992.But while civil- rights advocates have tried to draw attention to SORM through conferences and publications, an article in Thursday's Kommersant said that the St. Petersburg administration has signed a contract with an information security company to keep officials' conversations and files from prying eyes.While the technical aspects of the alleged information security system remain a secret, the company disclosed that City Hall officials will in some instances be able to use hacker-proof phone and computer lines. City Hall could not be reached for comment on Thursday.Yury Granovsky and Andrey Musatov contributed to this report. -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- Relayed by Barrys@aclu.org -.- -.-. --.- - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- edited by Harkank published on: 2000-09-02 comments to office@quintessenz.at subscribe Newsletter - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- 
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