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I miss a section about involved companies creating/developing all these tools and frameworks

For example: The israelian company [Ltd] is specialist in surveillance systems like protocol analyzers and developping tools for fixed line networks (glass and cable) for ISP and TELCO as well as radio-based systems and networks.

They cooperated in 1998+ with Boeing for military solutions in the fields of investigative tools for wireless sniffing and spoofing: Press announcement Radcom Ltd Israel with Boeing for mil-solutions

I was personally involved in tech and sales activities for RADCOM in Europe and participated on staff trainings in Praha, Tel-Aviv and Nizza between 2000 and 2003. In this time Radcom introduced theyr Product series - a hardware based protocol analyzer for realtime sniffing of low level and content filtering (and spoofing) at that time able to run on a OC-48 line (2 Gigabit of glass fiber). One of the late 2003 developpement was a splitter to read out glass fibers without opening or cutting them. They used a curved segment of intakt fiber for reading the multimode modulated signals by using the really small loss of signal in the curved intact part of glass fibers. These kind of taps are not detectable neither by senders/receiver nor by service providers.

I guess that this technology has to be used by NSA as described in Snowdens documents.

The prism series has been used for ISP's and TELCO's for GSM/GPRS and IP4 and IP6-based packet - orineted networks as ATM.. Later in 2002 Radcom published and distributed a SW-based Protocol Analyzer called Prism-lite for distributing in Universities and for Sales workshops. The layout of the GUI was widely identical with the expensif hw-based solutions. Captured dates could be analyzed posteriory with this tool. See Prism lite

In a Radcom's own eclaration in a Form 20-F 1.4.2004 for fiscal year 2003 they introduce themself as ^[1]

"..RADCOM Ltd. develops, manufactures, markets and supports innovative, high-performance internetworking test and analysis equipment and quality management for data communications and telecommunications networks. We were incorporated in 1985 under the laws of the State of Israel and commenced operations in 1991.

Except for the historical information contained herein, the statements contained in this annual report are forward-looking statements, within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, with respect to our business, financial condition and results of operations. Actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements as a result of various factors, including all the risks discussed in “Item 3–Key Information–Risk Factors” and elsewhere in this annual report.
We urge you to consider that statements which use the terms “believe,” “do not believe,” “expect,” “plan,” “intend,” “estimate,” “anticipate,” and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. These statements reflect our current views with respect to future events and are based on assumptions and are subject to risks and uncertainties. Except as required by applicable law, including the securities laws of the United States, we do not intend to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
As used in this annual report, the terms “we,” “us,” “our,” and “RADCOM” mean RADCOM Ltd. and its subsidiaries, unless otherwise indicated.
PrismLite™, Omni-Q™, MediaPro™ and Wirespeed™ are our trademarks. All other trademarks and trade names appearing in this annual report are owned by their respective holders..."

Hope that helps.. --Cosy-ch (talk) 14:06, 2 January 2014 (UTC)

This may be along the lines of what you are talking about, but I am curious: Why, if the information is known, is there not a section on the companies that worked with/for the US government to create this networks and data filtering programs, specifically the PRISM data program itself? Cottletj (talk) 08:32, 12 January 2014 (UTC)

Don't forget Google: "GLENN BECK EXPLAINS WHY GOOGLE’S STRENGTHENING RELATIONSHIP WITH THE MILITARY SHOULD ALARM YOU" is the headline:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/01/13/glenn-beck-explains-why-googles-strengthening-relationship-with-the-military-should-alarm-you/

NASA (U.S. government agency) works with Google Inc on super-speed computer that will crack encrypted messages for NSA. FYI -- Charles Edwin Shipp (talk) 02:52, 14 January 2014 (UTC)

Invitation to help craft a proposal

Israel

Continuing NSA developments

Heartbleed bug/PRISM

Copyright problem removed

Anti-terrorism

Prisms are used for the PRISM program

Cost to US cloud computing industry: $35bn

Technics/Technology Intrinsically Ethically Neutral; INDIVIDUAL HUMAN BEINGS ARE ALL

External links modified

US eavesdropping

Alternative for manual surveillance.

External links modified

PRISM update to article

Good morning Fellow Wikipedians. This is the first time I have ever done this so please bear with me. The Article on PRISM needs reframing if the subject is to be understood and the article to be without bias, roperley informative and objective. In an Irish High Court Judgement on the 18th of June 2014, the Irish Judge (Hogan G) rejected the FISA court as a court of law. (Par 15) His specific rejection of the Court was based on its abnormal structure and its secrecy. The judge did not state the following, which is a matter of settled international law. The laws of one country do not run in another country save with the consent of the second country's legislature. What that means in this case is that FISA has no application outside the territorial United States. The confusion in the article arises from the unstated assumption that US law runs in other countries. Not so, any more than the laws of another country can run in the US. On the 8th April 2014 the UK Interception ommissioner Sir Anthony May QC, in a public report to the Prime Minister and Parliament warned that PRISM type activities in the UK were criminal and also unlawful. Following the findings of fact by the Irish High Court the European Court of Justice, the highest court in the European Union reviewed the Irish High Court findings of fact and made a judgement, which is not subject to appeal, on 6th October 2015. The publicly known point from that judgement is that Safe Harbour, the agreement for the legal transfer of data between the EU and the US was ended. What was not clearly carried in the media commentaries was that the European Court had endorsed, in full, the findings of fact of the Irish High Court. The key finding of that Court was that the US was engaged in "mass and indiscriminate surveillance" using PRISM throughout the EU. In this way PRISM has been legally categorised in all countries other than the US. It is both criminal and unlawful. Orders or judgements of the FISA Court have no application outside the US, and if followed as in the case of PRISM, are criminal and unlawful.

In the article there is a note that the UK GCHQ does not use PRISM. That is because the judgement of Sir Anthony May is a correct statement of UK law, and has been applied by the UK Government to the agency that was using PRISM.

However, the issue of the companies named in the PRISM documents as 'providers' is not moot. If they followed the PRISM orders in the UK they committed civil and criminal offences.

In relation to the material you used from Snowden the status of that has changed. As published by the Guardian and Washington post it is media hearsay. However, all the Snowden material was sworn before the Irish High Court and is now evidence in a court of law.

I would like a response to this and also guidance as to where the bottom of the talk page is, it is not indicated in my version of the talk page.

Kevin Cahill KevinCahill (talk) 09:48, 11 August 2017 (UTC) 11 th August 2017--KevinCahill (talk) 09:48, 11 August 2017 (UTC)

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