The FBI created a unit for monitoring Internet communications

    The US Federal Bureau of Investigation has formed a special unit of the Domestic Communications Assistance Center (DCAS), whose task is the development and use of software and hardware to control Internet communications.

    On May 4, CNET published information that the Bureau is “inviting” a number of well-known social networks, VoIP-communication providers, IM developers and email clients to integrate backdoors into their software for the purpose of covert surveillance of information exchange. This project, code-named “Going dark,” was funded by the US Senate committee in the amount of $ 54 million. A little later it turned out that Microsoft and Google completely rejected the offer of secret agents.

    The creation of the DCAS unit, which is based in Quantico (adjacent to the FBI Academy and the Marine Corps military base) and formed at the expense of agents with special training, is called by many the continuation of the Dark Side of the Force project mentioned above, the official beginning of which dates back to last year, when one adviser Valerie Caproni, the FBI ( by Valerie the Caproni ) in a report made to the senators suggested that the FBI is in the position of constantly catching and guesses, while using all sorts of attackers t all modern communications technology wherever possible.

    Curiously, the FBI officially posted the vacancyfor specialists who, apparently, were not found in Quantico or simply were not enough. If someone would like to receive about $ 140,000 a year and at the same time be a technical specialist in the development and support of IT systems, then by May 2 he would have a chance to work for the FBI with a schedule of work from eight in the morning until half past four in the evening .

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