Indian intelligence agencies have developed their own program on surve

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Indian intelligence agencies have developed their own program on surveillance of correspondence on the Internet

Indian authorities will soon launch a program of computer tracking "Netra", developed by the Ministry of Defense, reports the newspaper "Times of India" on Monday.

According to the publication, this new program will be able to recognize within a fraction of a few seconds - words such as "attack", "bomb", "explosion", "kill", used by Internet users. "Netra" will allow monitoring of the microblogging network Twitter, updating of status of users in social networks, emailing, Internet calls, blogs and forums.

In addition, the system will be able to identify "suspicious" conversations being held by the use of programs such as Skype and Google Talk, notes "Times of India".

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I do not seem to find this article in TOI. If anybody has seen it, pls post links.

 

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I found it !!
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Government to launch 'Netra' for internet surveillance - Economic Times

KOLKATA: The government will shortly launch 'Netra', the defence ministry's internet spy system that will be capable of detecting words like 'attack', 'bomb', 'blast' or 'kill' in a matter of seconds from reams of tweets, status updates, emails, instant messaging transcripts, internet calls, blogs and forums.

The system will also be able to capture any dubious voice traffic passing through software such as Skype or Google Talk, says a telecom department note seen by ET. "Intelligence Bureau and Cabinet Secretariat are currently testing 'Netra', which will be deployed by all national security agencies," the note says. "The specifications of the 'Netra' system can be taken as frozen following tests by the Intelligence Bureau and Cabinet Secretariat, and can be considered for providing multiple user access to security agencies," it adds.

The 'Netra' internet surveillance system has been developed by Centre for Artificial Intelligence & Robotics (CAIR), a lab under Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO).

To hasten its deployment, the home ministry will shortly approach DRDO to allocate additional manpower resources to Bangalore-based CAIR, which is also working with the government's telecom technology arm, Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DoT) to formalise a strategy for tracking internet use.

The 'Netra' deployment strategy was recently discussed by an apex inter-ministerial group headed by DoT's member (technology) and included top officials of the Cabinet Secretariat, home ministry, DRDO, CAIR, Intelligence Bureau, C-DoT and Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In). The panel also deliberated on ways to respond to computer security incidents, track system vulnerabilities and promote effective IT security practices across the country.

During the meeting, it was also decided that 300 GB of storage space for intercepted internet traffic would be given to a maximum three security agencies, including the IB and Cabinet Secretariat, while an extra 100 GB would be assigned to the remaining law enforcement agencies, the minutes of the inter-ministerial panel meeting showed. Deployment of 'Netra' by security agencies is slated to pave the way for a national internet scanning & coordination centre, which India plans to establish along the lines of existing facilities in the UK, US, China and Iran.

 

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Spy system 'Netra' to keep an eye on suspicious activity on Internet - Rediff.com India News

While on the face of it, Netra is expected to pick up suspicious words, there is still more work remaining on the project. Some time words associated with terrorism are sent out in coded text. The recent incident in which a Lashkar-e-Tayiba operative from Haryana was arrested is an example.

In his coded message to attack Delhi, he had said, 'the wedding date is ready'. Netra may not be able to pick up coded messages, but work is on to provide a system that would indicate messages that are fishy.

The Inter-Services Intelligence too developed a new voice system to communicate without coming under the radar of the agencies.

 

[Eagle]

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Is it that system was already existing and it is coming to surface now? or is this the fresh one.

 

[Free Karma]

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[hitesh]

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