Riot (spy software)
Riot is a software of the US - arms company Raytheon in Massachusetts , the information publicly available on the Internet to connect with a person. The program is also known as Rapid Information Overlay Technology .
Functions
The program should have the following functions:
- Storage of position data
- Reading out the metadata of published photos
- Reading out GPS data from smartphones and tablets
- Reconstruction of contact networks
- Analysis of the location information, illustrate with pie and column diagrams , movement profile
This information should be able to be linked with other information (for example from social networks such as Facebook , Twitter , blogs and Foursquare ) in order to identify , locate and track users .
privacy
The US government classifies the technology as an EAR99 object under export guidelines ; accordingly, the software can be sold "without a license in most locations under most circumstances". It is not yet clear who will be allowed to use Riot in the future. Raytheon told the Guardian that the software had not yet been released. Most of the data is already relatively easy to grasp for those interested in computers; Riot only summarizes them in a bundle. Raytheon defends the program because it does not collect sensitive data such as social security numbers , bank accounts or other information about the financial situation.
marketing
According to the Guardian, Raytheon has not yet sold the software. It was passed on to US authorities and other companies in 2010 for research purposes and to help build a national security system. In April, Riot will be shown at a conference between US security agencies and industry.
Web links
- Video: Use Cases , Guardian (Eng.)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f Raytheon: US armaments company tests Facebook surveillance In: Spiegel Online . February 11, 2013.
- ↑ a b c The Google of the Warlords In: Tagesanzeiger.ch . February 11, 2013.
- ↑ Bettina Vestring: US armaments company evaluates social networks In: Frankfurter Rundschau . February 12, 2013.
- ↑ a b Armaments company develops Google for spies In: Süddeutsche . February 11, 2013.
- ↑ a b Andrea Jonjic: Armor Group develops software that enables social media data together and can be searched for 'national security' In: Netzpolitik.org . February 11, 2013.
- ^ Espionage: New sniffing software for Facebook ( Memento from February 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) In: Chip Online . February 12, 2013.
- ↑ US armaments company works on Google for spies In: Heise online . February 11, 2013.