SORM
SORM ( Russian С истема технических средств Exemples обеспечения функций О перативно- Р озыскных М ероприятий; СОРМ ) is a monitoring program of the Russian Federal Security Service FSB intercept the telephone and Internet data in Russia and stores.
Technically, SORM is comparable to PRISM . In both cases, data packets are intercepted with a black box directly at the access provider in order to be able to analyze them remotely: “Ultimately, you don't need the operator or the court”. The legal requirement is the suspicion of a "moderate" crime or information about it.
Expansion stages
- SORM-1 (1996): Telephone Surveillance
- SORM-2 (1998): Internet Monitoring
- SORM-3 (2014): Collection and storage of all types of information, use of selectors
Russian Internet service providers have been obliged to deliver data to SORM since 2000 .
In 2012, around 530,000 surveillance permits were issued by Russian courts.
Others
In the spring of 2010, the system was used to convict a hacker who played a pornographic film on an advertising board in Moscow using a Chechen server.
See also
Web links
- Russia to Monitor All Communications at Sochi Winter Olympics; SORM System is “PRISM on Steroids” , LeakSource 2013 (English / Russian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stefan Kremp: Intelligence expert: Russian FSB monitors like the NSA. In: heise.de. January 22, 2014, accessed February 24, 2016 .
- ↑ a b wiretapping of telephone calls and interception of Internet data in Russia. Sputniknews, 2013.
- ^ A b Carsten Knop, Holger Schmidt : Companies and States in Cyber War. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. October 12, 2010, accessed October 12, 2010 .