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  echelon - OneLook Dictionary Search
ECHELON : 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
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  Echelon (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The echelon formation in migratory bird flight, aerial combat, tank warfare, and medieval warfare.
Echelon is a flight simulator series developed by MADIA.
Echelon in geology refers to a set of short linear features that overlap or are staggered in a line that runs obliquely to the strike of the individual features.
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 ECHELON
ECHELON is the largest electronic spy network in history, run by the United States, the UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, capturing telephone calls, faxes and e-mails around the world.
Supporters stress that ECHELON is simply a method of sorting captured signals and is just one of the many arrows in the intelligence community's quiver, along with increasingly sophisticated bugging and communications interception techniques, satellite tracking, through-clothing scanning, automatic fingerprinting and recognition systems that can recognize genes, odours or retina patterns.
Echelon monitoring of mobile phones in Pakistan was reportedly used to track Khalid Sheikh Mohammed before he was arrested in Rawalpindi on March 1, 2003.
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 bones.ca - Echelon formation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Militarily, echelon formations were most often used by infantry or cavalry when attempting to flank an enemy army.
In modern warfare, the echelon formation is also commonly employed by armored cavalry because it offers both an excellent field of fire and visibility to each tank in the formation.
Echelon formations are also commonly used by civic, or riot police to move crowds either to the left or right.
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 ECHELON - the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
ECHELON is the largest electronic spy network in history, run by the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, capturing telephone calls, faxes and e-mails around the world.
Supporters stress that ECHELON is simply a method of sorting captured signals and is just one of the many arrows in theintelligence community's quiver, along with increasingly sophisticated bugging and communications interception techniques, satellite tracking, through-clothing scanning,automatic fingerprinting and recognition systems that can recognize genes, odours or retina patterns.
For example, in the months prior to the September 11attacks on the United States, signal intelligence produced by ECHELON developed considerable "chatter", or snippets of dialogue, that suggested some sort of attack was imminent.Analysts were unable to pin down the details of the attack, though, because operatives planning the attack relied largely onnon-electronic communications.
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ECHELON This article is about the spy network; for other uses see Echelon (disambiguation).
Echelon, New Jersey Echelon is a census-designated place located in Camden County, New Jersey.
Echelon (flight simulator) Echelon is a freeware 3-D science fiction flight simulator designed by Bulk Entertainment.
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 ECHELON - The Encyclopedia
ECHELON is thought to be the largest Signals intelligence and analysis network for intercepting electronic communications in history.
In May 2001, the European Parliament produced a report on ECHELON [5] which, amongst other things, recommended that citizens of member states routinely use cryptography in their communications to protect their privacy.
Prior to the September 11, 2001 attacks and the legislation which followed it, US intelligence agencies were generally prohibited from spying on people inside the US and other western countries' intelligence services generally faced similar restrictions within their own countries.
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 ECHELON Echelon Communications Australia System Intelligence   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
ECHELON is the largest electronic spy network in history, run by the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, capturing telephone calls, fax es and e-mail s around the world.
Supporters stress that ECHELON is simply a method of sorting captured signals and is just one of the many arrows in the intelligence community's quiver, along with increasingly sophisticated bugging and communications interception techniques, satellite tracking, through-clothing scanning, automatic fingerprint ing and recognition systems that can recognize gene s, odours or retina patterns.
In May 2001 the European Union produced a report [5] on ECHELON which, amongst other things, recommended that citizens of member states routinely use cryptography in their communications to protect their privacy.
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 echelon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
ECHELON connects all these computers and allows the individual stations to function as distributed elements an integrated system.
ECHELON is a term associated with a global network of computers that automatically search through millions of intercepted messages for pre-programmed keywords or fax, telex and e-mail addresses.
Echelon is at the forefront of this technological revolution because of the LonWorks platform, a...
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 Encyclopedia: Echelon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Run by the UKUSA community, ECHELON can capture radio and satellite communications, telephone calls, faxes and e-mails nearly anywhere in the world and includes computer automated analysis and sorting of intercepts.
The US are believed to dominate the UKUSA alliance, providing most of the computer expertise and frequently much of the personnel for global interception bases.
For alternative meanings see: Norfolk (disambiguation) Norfolk (pronounced NOR-fk) is a low-lying county in East Anglia in the east of southern England.
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 National Security Agency - the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Its capabilities are suspected to include the ability to monitor alarge proportion of the world's transmitted civilian telephone, fax and data traffic.
In addition, ECHELON is considered with indignation by citizens of other countries, with widespreadsuspicion that the United States government uses it for motives other than its national security, including for economic intelligence.Others say that what NSA does is necessary.
It has been suggested that in practice Echelon implements an end run around legalrestrictions on internal surveillance by having partner agencies spy on the citizens of other partner's countries, therebyavoiding illegal spying on their own citizens.
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 Stormtrooper - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The term Stormtrooper refers to special military troops which were formed in the last year of World War I as the German army developed new methods of attacking enemy trenches, called " infiltration tactics ".
Any enemy strong points which had not been over-run by stormtroopers could be attacked by second echelon troops following the stormtroopers.
On March 21, 1918 Germany launched a major offensive, " Operation Michael ", against British and Commonwealth forces, using the new methods and tactics.
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ECHELON monitoring of mobile phones in Pakistan was reportedly used to track Khalid Shaikh Mohammed before he was arrested in Rawalpindi on March 1, 2003
There are allegations, however, that ECHELON and the UKUSA alliance were used to circumvent these restrictions by, for example, having the UK facilities spy on people inside the US and the US facilites spy on people in the UK, with the agencies exchanging data (perhaps even automatically through the ECHELON system without human intervention).
Supporters stress that ECHELON is simply a method of sorting captured signals and is just one of the many arrows in the intelligence community's quiver, along with increasingly sophisticated bugging and communications interception techniques, satellite tracking, through-clothing scanning, automated biometric recognition systems that can recognize faces, fingerprints & retina patterns.
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* The ''' echelon formation ''' in bird migration migratory bird flight, aerial combat, tank warfare, and medieval warfare.
Echelon fault Echelon faults are an example of this.
There you find a list of all editors and the possibility to edit the original text of the article Echelon (disambiguation).
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Its capabilities are suspected to include the ability to monitor a large proportion of the world's transmitted civilian telephone, fax and data traffic.
It has been suggested that, in practice, Echelon implements an end run around legal restrictions on internal surveillance: partner agencies spy on the citizens of other partner's countries, thereby avoiding illegal spying on their own citizens.
NSA's immediate predecessor, the Armed Forces Security Agency ( AFSA), was established within the Department of Defense, under the command of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, on May 20, 1949.
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Antenna 4 (through the wire) in former Echelon intelligence gathering station at Silvermine, Cape Peninsula, South Africa.
Echelon Corporation to Announce Q2 2005 Results July 21st, 2005; To Comply With Federal Regulation FD, Echelon - The earnings announcement itself is scheduled to cross the wire shortly after 1:00 pm PT.
Echelon is sending out this release regarding Q2, 2005 only to comply with Federal Regulation FD.
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He ranks in the top echelon of theologians of all races and faiths today who are most admired and respected.
And if the medium is the message, then the teachings of James Cone find their most eloquent testimony in the charisma and quality of his personal life and human relationships.
This human name article is a disambiguation page — a list of pages that might otherwise share the same title, which is a person's or persons' name.
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 ECHELON Article, ECHELON Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
ECHELON is the largest electronic spy network in history, runby the United States, the UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, capturing telephone calls, faxes and e-mails around the world.
In May 2001 the European Union produced a report [3] on ECHELON which, amongst other things, recommended thatcitizens of member states routinely use cryptography in theircommunications to protect their privacy.
In April 2004, the European Union decided to spend 11 million EUR developing secure communicationbased on quantum cryptography — the SECOQC project — a system that would theoretically be unbreakable by ECHELON or any otherespionage system.
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 Echelon - Result for Echelon - Meaning of Echelon - Definition of Echelon - Dictionary of Meaning - www.mauspfeil.net
Run by the UKUSA community, '''ECHELON''' can capture radio and satellite communications, telephone calls, fax faxes and e-mail e-mails nearly anywhere in the world and includes computer automated analysis and sorting of intercepts.
In May 2001, the European Parliament produced a report on ECHELON [http://cryptome.org/echelon-ep.htm] which, amongst other things, recommended that citizens of member states routinely use cryptography in their communications to protect their privacy.
An [http://www.techworld.com/storage/news/index.cfm?NewsID=2430 article] by Chris Mellor claims that ECHELON is built by Raytheon, Lockheed Martin and Zeta Associates.
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 ECHELON [Definition]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
ECHELON ECHELON is the largest electronic spy network in history, run by the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, capturing telephone calls, faxes and e-mails around the world.
Echelon is a flight simulator A flight simulator is a system that tries to replicate, or simulate, the experience of flying an airplane as closely and realistically as possible.
The different types of flight simulator range from video games up to fullsize cockpit replicas mounted on hydraulic rams, controlled by state of the art computer technology....
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 National Security Agency. Everything you wanted to know about National Security Agency but had no clue how to find it.. ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Government Communications Security Bureau), and otherwise known as the UKUSA group, is believed to be responsible for, among other things, the operation of the ECHELON system.
Many people oppose NSA's operations, arguing that NSA infringes on Americans' privacy by spying on the United States' own citizens, and that this has occurred in violation of NSA's charter prohibiting just such acts.
In addition, ECHELON is considered with indignation by citizens of other countries, with widespread suspicion that the United States government uses it for motives other than its national security, including for
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 National Security Agency - Indopedia, the Indological knowledgebase
The NSA has, at times, attempted to restrict the publication of academic research into cryptography; for example, the Khufu and Khafre block ciphers.
Its capabilities are suspected to include the ability to monitor a large proportion of the world's transmitted civilian telephone, fax and data traffic.
It has been suggested that, in practice, Echelon implements an end run around legal restrictions on internal surveillance: partner agencies spy on the citizens of other partner's countries, thereby avoiding illegal spying on their own citizens.
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 Echelon (disambiguation)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
A flight simulator by Bulk Entertainment: Echelon (flight simulator).
This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name.
If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix that link to point to the appropriate specific page.
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Echelon (game) Echelon is a new turn-based and customizable WW2 strategy card game from Echelon Games (www.echeloncards....
Game (disambiguation) Game has the following meanings: recreational activity; a surreal numbers (written with a capital...
Homefront (game) See Homefront (disambiguation) for other uses of the term.
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 Wikipedia free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The NSA/CSS has, at times, attempted to restrict the publication of academic research into cryptography; for example, the Khufu and Khafre block ciphers.
In the past, there have been alleged instances of improper violations of USSID 18 that occurred in violation of the NSA's strict charter prohibiting such acts.
In addition, ECHELON is considered with indignation by citizens of countries outside the UKUSA alliance, with widespread suspicion that the United States government uses it for motives other than its national security, including political and industrial espionage.
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 NSA [Definition]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Main article: ECHELON ECHELON is the largest electronic spy network in history, run by the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, capturing telephone calls, faxes and e-mails around the world.
Its capabilities are suspected to include the ability to monitor a large proportion of the world's transmitted civilian telephone The telephone or phone (Greek: tele = far away and phone = voice) is a telecommunications device that transmits speech by means of electric signals.
In addition, ECHELON is considered with indignation by citizens of other countries, with widespread suspicion that the United States government uses it for motives other than its national security, including for politics Politics is the process and method of decision-making for groups of human beings.
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 info/guide/b/br/brighton_and_hove - Info and Guide.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
For other uses see Brighton (disambiguation) Brighton in East Sussex is one of the largest and most famous seaside resorts in England.
Brighton and Hove form a single conurbation but Brighton's lively atmosphere is a direct contrast to its near neighbour which has quieter and more refined character.
Brian Clough - won promotion to the First Division (then the highest echelon of English football) and then won the First Division championship with Derby in the 1972 season.
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 CIA redirects here Alternate meanings in CIA disambiguation...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Alternate meanings in CIA (disambiguation)." The "Central Intelligence Agency" ("CIA") is the United States ' foreign intelligence agency, responsible for obtaining and analyzing information about foreign government s, corporation s, and individuals, and reporting such information to the various branches of the US government.
It also maintains a vast covert military apparatus, which during the Cold War was responsible for a number of clandestine campaigns against foreign governments, leaders, and citizens.
It undoubtedly makes use of the surveillance satellite s of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) and the signal interception capabilities of the NSA, including the Echelon system, and the surveillance aircraft of the various branches of the US armed forces.
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