Telecommunications intelligence

Telecommunications intelligence ( Fm Aufkl ; English Communication Intelligence - COMINT) is the recording and evaluation of telecommunications traffic for information acquisition by intelligence services and in military reconnaissance . This includes verbal and non-verbal communication that is transmitted via cable ( e.g. telephone , internet ), satellite or radio waves ( radio reconnaissance ). Together with electronic reconnaissance , telecommunication reconnaissance is grouped under the generic term “ telecommunication and electronic reconnaissance” .

The enormous volume of remote communication makes it less the detection, but rather the evaluation, a challenge for telecommunications intelligence. It is important to identify the traffic that is relevant to one's own information needs. Automated processes and algorithms are increasingly being used. The increasing encryption is another condition under which today's telecommunications intelligence operates.

Telecommunications intelligence is a sub-area of telecommunications surveillance . The latter term also includes, for example, the monitoring of postal traffic.

See also

• Judgment of the Federal Constitutional Court on the international-foreign telecommunications investigation of the Federal Intelligence Service

literature

• Bastian Schneider, Telecommunications Secrecy and Telecommunications Reconnaissance, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-428-15964-2 .

Web links

• Definitions and explanations of electronic warfare. In: manfred-bischoff.de. Retrieved October 24, 2019 . 

Individual evidence

1. ^ JP 2-0 Joint Intelligence. (PDF) In: Joint Chiefs of Staff . October 22, 2013, accessed April 25, 2020 .