PROMIS

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

PROMIS ( Pro secutor’s M anagement I nformation S ystem ) is software used by the NSA since the 1980s to spy out databases and track people, which made it possible to collect confidential data from a wide variety of sources, such as banks, telephone companies, credit card companies, Linking insurance companies or police authorities and thus creating data profiles for citizens and controlling political opponents.

history

PROMIS was originally developed by Inslaw Inc. for the US Department of Justice in the 1970s . In the 1980s there was a legal dispute ( Inslaw Affair ) over the extent of the usage rights , whereupon the NSA appropriated the software and modified it for its own purposes.

A successor functionally similar to PROMIS has been the PRISM monitoring program since 2005 .

Disclosure

The American journalist Danny Casolaro (1947–1991) died in the course of his research into the use of PROMIS, as did his NSA informant, who was previously found dead at Washington National Airport .

Details about PROMIS were made public by the NSA employee, Michael Riconosciuto, who was involved in the further development, during his trial - he was sentenced to 30 years in prison for drug trafficking.

See also

Literature and Sources

  • Egmont R. Koch , Jochen Sperber: The data mafia - secret services, corporations, syndicates: computer espionage and new information cartels . Rowohlt 1995, ISBN 978-3-498-06304-7
  • Kenn Thomas, Jim Keith: The Octopus: Secret Government and the Death of Danny Casolaro . Feral House 2005, ISBN 0-922915-91-1
  • Egmont R. Koch: login PROMIS - hackers with a secret mission , ZDF 1996, 45 min
  • Listeners in the data realm . In: Der Spiegel . No. 36 , 1996, pp. 194-211 ( online ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Richard L. Fricker: Wired 1.01: The INSLAW Octopus ( English ) In: Wired . April 1, 1993. Archived from the original on July 2, 2013. Retrieved March 19, 2014.
  2. ↑ Consortium News: PRISM's Controversial Forerunner ( English ) In: Consortium News . June 11, 2013. Archived from the original on July 15, 2013. Retrieved March 24, 2014.