US Looks at Ways to Prevent Spying on NSA Spying

[tangent4ronpaul]

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wir...pying-22249702

As the Obama administration considers ending the storage of millions of phone records by the National Security Agency, the government is quietly funding research to prevent eavesdroppers from seeing whom the U.S. is spying on, The Associated Press has learned.

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence has paid at least five research teams across the country to develop a system for high-volume, encrypted searches of electronic records kept outside the government's possession. The project is among several ideas that could allow the government to store Americans' phone records with phone companies or a third-party organization, but still search them as needed.

Under the research, U.S. data mining would be shielded by secret coding that could conceal identifying details from outsiders and even the owners of the targeted databases, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press and interviews with researchers, corporate executives and government officials.
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[DamianTV]

28 steps forward, 1 step back, 28 steps forward, 1 step back.

[tangent4ronpaul]

Yeah, I sorta remember Obama saying something about the feds having to submit a warrant for specific records. "high volume" and the DB owner/maintainer not knowing what you queried - umm, yeah - that doesn't sound like when served with a legal warrant.

Oh yeah, the so called metadata supposedly got quieted 280 times last year or the year before. Less than once a day does not sound like "high volume".

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[tangent4ronpaul]

The encrypted search techniques could make it more difficult for hackers to access the phone records and could prevent phone companies from knowing which records the government was searching.

"It would remove one of the big objections to having the phone companies hold the data," Bellovin said.

Similar research is underway by researchers at University of California at Irvine; a group from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Texas at Austin; another group from MIT, Yale and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; and a fourth from Stealth Software Technologies, a Los Angeles-based technology company.



I thought the point was to keep things legal and prevent abuse.

Ummm... and the phone companies already hold this data +more info for 5+ years. "Letting the telco's hold their own data?" WTF???


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[Occam's Banana]

28 steps forward, 1 step back, 28 steps forward, 1 step back.

I wish!

It's more like, "One step forward, 28 steps back, one step forward, 28 steps back ..."