The Government Electronic Surveillance Agencies
Modified 6 November 2008
"If one would give me six lines written
by the hand of the most honest man,
I would find something in them
to have him hanged."
— Cardinal Richelieu
The walls have ears, behave accordingly.
Here are some organizations that take information security
and/or communications security very seriously indeed,
some of which also expend some effort in breaking that
of other peoples.
Depending on who and where you are, the below list will likely
contain some mix of good guys and bad guys.
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Australia
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Canada
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France —
Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure
(Directorate-General for External Security) —
http://www.defense.gouv.fr/dgse
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Germany —
Bundesamt fur Sicherheit in der
Informationstechnik,
(Federal Office for Information Security, or BSI),
is Germany's equivalent of the NSA:
http://www.bsi.bund.de/english/publications/index.htm
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INTERPOL — International Criminal Police
Organization.
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Japan —
Bōeishōjōhohonbu
(Defense Intelligence Headquarters) —
http://www.mod.go.jp/dih/
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New Zealand —
Government Communications Security Bureau:
http://www.gcsb.govt.nz/
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Russia
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ФСБ (FSB) —
Федералная
Служба
Безопасности
(Federal'naya Sluzhba
Bezopasnosti,
or Federal Department of Security).
The new name for
Komityet Gosudarstvyenoy Bezopasnosti,
the Committee for State Security, or the KGB.
http://www.fsb.ru
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Serbia —
Bezbednosno-Informativna Agencija
(Security Information Agency) —
http://www.bia.gov.rs/
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South Korea —
National Intelligence Service
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Spain —
Centro Nacional de Inteligencia —
http://www.cni.es/
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Sweden —
Försvarets Radioanstalt (FRA)
or
Swedish National Defence Radio Establishment
—
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Turkey
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Ukraine
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United Kingdom
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United States of America —
Note that NSA is the main comsec/sigint agency in
the U.S., although NRO operates satellites for NSA,
and DIA runs some of the other data-gathering
operations.