police state 2.0 NOTE: Aufgrund des großen Interesses an meinem Research Paper zu Projekt INDECT habe ich nun folgende kurze Einführung zu diesem Thema verfasst. Das vollständige Research Paper findet man weiterhin hier:
Überwachungsstaat 2.0
Eine kurze Einführung zu Projekt INDECT und der Sicherheitsindustrie im allgemeinen
von Domingo Conte
Das Geschäft mit Überwachungstechnologien und Data-mining ist in den letzten 10 Jahren rasant angewachsen und wächst immer noch konstant weiter. Nicht nur in den USA sondern auch in der EU wird intensiv an neuen Technologien und Methoden zur effektiveren Überwachung der Bürger geforscht. But the already existing data from the flood which is over 4 million surveillance cameras in London has long since become unmanageable, but the data collection and monitoring of governments not to be delusional. This feature is especially logistical problems, because all possible data about all sorts of people have one thing that all of this data analysis is quite different. But even with these problems are being researched intensively.
so financed by the European Union as part of their safety research program since 2009 a research project, which deals specifically so that this continuous growing flood of data under control. The project is called INDECT, which stands for "Intelligent information system to support surveillance, search and discovery for the safety of citizens in urban environments . This research project will run for a period of 5 years and is to be completed by the end of 2013. Participants include several companies from the security and multimedia industry, police and various European universities . First test runs of the project are planned for 2012 European Football Championship 2012 in Poland.
goal of the project is eine Sicherheitsarchitektur zu entwerfen, die sämtliche bestehenden Überwachungs-technologien logisch miteinander verknüpft, in Echtzeit auswertet und verwaltet - und das alles soll vollautomatisch durch intelligente Computersysteme erfolgen. Die dazu verwendeten Datenquellen sind u.a. Videoüberwachung, Vorratsdatenspeicherung, Telekommunikation, Gesichtserkennung, Websites, Diskussionsforen, Usenet-Gruppen, Datenserver, P2P-Netzwerke sowie individuelle Computersysteme und alle vorhandenen Datenbanken wie Namen, Adressen, biometrische Daten, Interneteinträge, polizeiliche, geheimdienstliche, militärische, forensische und zivile Datenbanken, Daten von luft- und seegestützte Plattformen und Satelliten usw. Und als wären that's not enough sources for monitoring is in addition also researched in dozens of other projects in various new surveillance technologies: Beginning of autonomous, with video and audio systems equipped drones, to technologies for the early identification of illegal substances such as explosives or drugs. Finally, all available databases to be only INDECT linked intelligently to be able to then search automatically in real time for dangerous situations or security risks and evaluate. This will start with situations such as: Man steals woman's purse on the street and being filmed by surveillance cameras - INDECT the system detects it and reports it and the local police department. But that's not enough. With INDECT you want to go much further:
is another goal of INDECT about it to recognize abnormalities or abnormal behavior automatically, at an early stage with the eventual aim of dangerous situations and criminal activity - that before anything happened - identify and report where appropriate to the responsible security officer. That we want to be, for example, a person's identity, which becomes suspicious about by extremist posts in a forum, with the help of call data can be determined. If the suspect is identified, it could then be observed by surveillance cameras and drones on. And all that basically automatically, without human intervention. But this is just another of many possible scenarios, such INDECT could be used.
The operator of the project, especially the "Polish Platform for Homeland Security" stress, INDECT is a purely scientific project and target is nothing more than the production of functional prototypes. This may be true also for the present research project. However, the evidence is increasing that man sich bereits jetzt auch damit beschäftigt, wie man die Endresultate schlussendlich kommerzialisieren kann. Dies verwundert nicht sehr, in Anbetracht der hohen Kosten für Projekt INDECT: Offiziell beläuft sich das Budget für INDECT auf knapp €15 Millionen. 10 Millionen davon werden von der EU, also aus Steuergeldern, finanziert, der Rest von den verschiedenen Unternehmen und Organisation die in das Projekt involviert sind.
Manche mögen einwenden, dass das Budget des Projektes doch gar nicht so hoch wäre, doch darf man dabei einerseits nicht außer acht lassen, dass INDECT nur eines von vielen Projekten im europäischen Sicherheitsforschungsprogramm , and many of the needed for INDECT or there deployable technologies developed within these other projects. (Only in the areas of risk analysis and risk estimate "," Biometrics and Identification "and" detection and monitoring "the EU projects funded with over € 200 million.) On the other hand, we should not forget that it is only available from INDECT itself is the development of a purely software-based technology for networking of all control, monitoring and information systems. Other technologies required for the project are already available now: So you INDECT for example, appears in working with the operators of a the largest supercomputers in the EU's interest - the GALERA system at the Technical University of Gdansk in Poland. [1]
Furthermore, the real level of funding of INDECT is not all that perfectly clear. It was recently announced as being operated as part of project INDECT at least yet another, separate project called INSIGMA, but where are the funds for it, has not been clarified, as apart from the fact that this project of several INDECT parties were publicly mentioned and also on the website a quick note INDECT [2] has been published to, otherwise only very little information available to INSIGMA. However, it seems this project is also to go to the development of audio and video surveillance. And probably will still tweaking on other projects. UPDATE: Meanwhile, further details of project INSIGMA been published, see: INSIGMA project and other research projects as part of INDECT
This has to be involved in the project can be certain: they seem really hard to work on their research and to strive for results to be. With the possible consequences of their research they deal appears to be but little. At the 27th " Chaos Communication Congress " such as steel, an employee of INDECT from Poland [3] - as he said himself - a young lady who was giving a lecture on INDECT the show. Why he came up with this idea, I'm not quite clear, for he is cryptographer in INDECT and was in no way capable of relating to ethical, social or political issues enter into the project, although in this paper was indeed all about, not about technical details. He only commented, should policy discussions with the EU Commission and not done with him. This proposal is understandable in itself, certainly, the problem is just that so far seem not even members of parliament and other politicians serious information from the EU Commission regarding INDECT get, let alone journalists or "simple" citizens.
This INDECT employees increased in any case patiently for about half an hour, taking questions from the audience (or those to avoid), all in all hat der gute Mann allerdings gar nicht sonderlich viel gesagt, auch wenn er viel geredet hat. Was nach dieser halben Stunde aber recht klar war, war seine Einstellung bezüglich seiner eigenen Verantwortung als Wissenschaftler: Ihm schien die Idee, selbst Verantwortung für mögliche negative Konsequenzen seiner Forschungsarbeiten zu übernehmen recht fremd zu sein. Er ist ja nur Wissenschaftler - der forscht und sich nicht darum kümmert, was mit seinen Forschungsresultaten irgendwann geschehen könnte... Der mehrfach gestellten Frage, was die Endziele dies Projektes wären, wich er dann auch immer wieder mehr oder weniger geschickt aus. Er erwähnte, dass die irische Polizei besonders scharf auf Drohnen sei und dass man INDECT auch im Kampf gegen Kinderpornografie gut einsetzen könne. Über kommerzielle Ziele des Projektes weiß er nichts.
Sein Kollege Mikołaj Leszczuk , der ebenfalls in Polen an INDECT forscht, war in einem Radiointerview [4] diesbezüglich nicht so zurückhaltend. Er meinte ganz klar, dass man ihre Forschungsarbeiten an INDECT, sobald diese funktionstüchtig sind, auch kommerzialisieren würde und dass sie mit möglichen Interessenten auf jeden Fall kooperieren würden. Auf mögliche Gefahren von Missbrauch dieser Technologien angesprochen meinte it just that you can indeed Pixelize the faces on video and so then no one can follow his own wife abuse with INDECT.
's what most of the technical scientists of INDECT only a harmless project is research, but could eventually become a very dangerous weapon. Of course they do not tinker with conventional weapons such as bombs or guns - they are from the Western states in general so used primarily to defend the external security. Technologies such as INDECT but, if they are operational again, especially in defense of the homeland security use . See These technologies are implemented only once, completely new possibilities for the comprehensive monitoring. Movies like " The No.1 " or " Minority Report " or Orwell's book 1984 then perhaps lose some of their flavor of science fiction and nice words such as "presumption of innocence" could be very soon from our Vocabulary disappear and be replaced by words such as "general suspicion" or "Pre crime prevention".
If these technologies, the from projects such as INDECT result, once ready, it's only a matter of time before we begin, this will be also implemented in all sorts of places. First in public urban areas such as subways, train stations, airports, etc., and if they prove to be effective there, the implementation in an urban environment will be extended further and further. The process will be the same as in the CCTV surveillance cameras, which have spread in recent years more and more in the cities of the EU, so they now have in the city, a modern city are.
Since the present Time is still unclear who will ultimately be the end customer for technologies such as INDECT, there are a number of potential risks that lie behind such technologies. Especially since the whole project has purely conceptual look at the European and German data protection law and constitutional law in contradiction. Even if INDECT and similar technologies only by police and military are used, the risk of abuse is probably much higher than the supposed benefit in terms of improved security for the citizens. But the probability is high that these technologies are eventually sold to various other places - From the secret services of private security to paramilitary organizations. The potential risks would still be far higher. Certainly, only that the taxpayer funded research on technology for its own supervision and at some point companies will make any profit so much. And we will be then monitored over the country. Whether the population will benefit from these security measures as much benefit as the security industry is another question.
about the value and usefulness of such security research programs can be discussed much. There is etwa ethische Bedenken: Will wirklich jeder ständig und überall überwacht werden, nur um dadurch vielleicht, vielleicht auch nicht, etwas sicherer zu sein? Es gibt soziale Bedenken: Wie wird sich das gesellschaftliche Leben verändern, wenn wir alle wissen, das wir ständig von intelligenten Computersystemen überwacht werden, welche uns permanent nach abnormem oder auffälligem Verhalten abscannen. Oder auch politische Bedenken: Was wird aus mehr oder weniger demokratischen Ländern, wenn das Volk von einigen Wenigen permanent überwacht werden kann und keiner diese Überwacher überwacht.
Aber auch die USA arbeiten an ganz ähnlichen Projekten wie INDECT. Allein die Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) hat mehrere Forschungsprogramme auf diesem Gebiet. CTS oder Combat Zones That See [5] beispielsweise ist ein Projekt mit dem Ziel, in bestimmten abgegrenzten Gebieten wie Frontlinien oder auch in Städten, nach eigenen Angaben, „alles was sich bewegt zu verfolgen.“ Dies wollen sie mit Hilfe eines massiven Überwachungskamera-Netzwerkes erreichen welches mit einem Computer-system mit künstlicher Intelligenz verbunden ist und jede Bewegung identifizieren und verfolgen kann. Auch das Video Image Retrieval and Analysis Tool (Virat) Program [6] that the Information Processing Technology Office (IPTO ) of the DARPA funded with $ 20 million, aims to similar technologies such as those of INDECT. The aim of the program to develop a database containing large amounts of video stores and one can quickly search by using intelligent software agents on the desired video content. Mind's Eye [7] ist noch ein weiteres Projekt der DARPA zur intelligenten Video-Analyse mittels künstlicher Intelligenz.
Sicherheit und Sicherheitsforschung ist also nicht nur in der EU ein großes Thema, sondern auch in den USA beispielsweise. Und das nicht erst seit 9/11. Doch seit 2001 ist ein regelrechter Sicherheitswahn in der westlichen Welt ausgebrochen. Nachdem der Kalte Krieg vorbei war und der kommunistische bzw. sozialistische Feind verschwand – der, wie uns gesagt wurde, unser aller Leben bedrohte – haben wir nun eine new threat, a new enemy: the Islamic international terrorism. And we are told that we were in great danger of being blown up all at any time by a suicide bomber or a dirty bomb in the air. Each neighbor, even the blonde, blue-eyed who likes people to listen to music could be a sleeper to be trained at any Al-Qaida -terror camp in Pakistan to terrorists, and now sits in his basement and is working on a much larger massacre as 9 / 11 . We are all blown up in acute danger of mistaken fanatics unworkable in the air. That is why we need more security and all these security programs, and therefore must still tighter security measures ago.
Only because of the few people in our society, completely out of hand - as murderers, rapists or child molesters - it is difficult to explain to the population that each individual's permanent and all his Security must be managed, and that this technology such as INDECT must be developed. In Germany there are, for example, about 1,000 murders a year, and that's why 80 million people are always and everywhere be monitored? This is not particularly convincing.
Man braucht also einen besseren, einen eindrucksvolleren Grund, um die Bevölkerung davon zu überzeugen, dass sie – zu ihrer eigenen Sicherheit – immer besser überwacht werden muss. Und was für ein Grund wäre da geeigneter als internationaler islamistischer Terrorismus mit Schläfern in jeder Ecke die nur darauf warten, unschuldige Zivilisten wegzusprengen. Damit macht man Sicherheitsprogramme für die Bevölkerung schmackhaft. Mit zum Teil völlig bizarren Horrorgeschichten bringt der Staat die Menschen dazu, aus Angst ganz von selbst nach mehr und mehr Überwachung zu rufen.
Nun einmal angenommen, all diese doch recht dubious Islamist terrorist organizations really exist. Then perhaps you should first explore why these terrorists is so attached to wage war against the Western world and here blow up buildings and people in the air. Is this simply because, as George W. Bush said so beautiful that they are evil and hate our freedoms? More likely than us - you and me - hate is that they hate our governments of the EU and the USA. And for that, have identified some of them very good reasons. To do this, you just take a look at Afghanistan. This country, our respective Governments and their military and private security agencies such as Blackwater or Xe Services in the last decade as much freedom and peace that brought the U.S. - and EU troops should be there constantly reinforced. For in fact there there for ten years of war and the country has disintegrated into chaos and anomie. And by the way contaminated the entire areas in USA for decades with its uranium ammunition with which they infect humans, soil, water and air.
But perhaps hate the Islamic terror groups, our governments, because these people frequently have seen our governments, governments in Islamic and other countries immer gleich zu Sturz brachten, sobald diese es wagten, irgendetwas gegen die US- oder EU-Interessen zu tun. Wie etwa 1953 im Iran der demokratisch gewählte Premierminister Mohammad Mossadegh von CIA und MI6 zu Fall gebracht wurde weil er es sich erlaubte, die iranische Ölindustrie zu verstaatlichen. Damit waren die westlichen Regierungen nicht sonderlich glücklich und installierten dafür nach ihrem Coup d'etat eine Diktatur unter Mohammad-Rezā Shāh Pahlavi welche über 25 Jahre andauerte. Oder vielleicht mögen sie unsere Regierungen nicht, weil diese in ihren Wahnvorstellungen, Weltpolizei spielen zu müssen, sich andauernd in Angelegenheiten anderer Länder einmischen und die Welt als ihre Spielwiese ansehen. So wie beispielsweise die deutsche Regierung davon überzeugt ist, dass ihre Sicherheit mit Truppen am Hindukusch verteidigt werden müsse.
Denkt man kurz etwas ernsthaft über die Frage nach, weshalb Muslime auf die Idee kommen sollten, Terrororganisationen zu gründen und Anschläge in der westlichen Welt zu verüben, so kommt man auch noch auf einige andere Ursachen und Gründe. Die aller meisten dieser Gründe beziehen sich allerdings More on the reluctance of humans to various Western governments and their "commitment" in Muslim countries, and not so much the fact that these terrorists simply hate the people in the western world and their freedom. Our governments would never publicly admit this, but. Because it would create based on the discussions on our security a small dilemma: namely, the state would then develop monitoring projects such as INDECT for our own safety, only to be able to protect ourselves from the threats, which he produced himself (and provoked). In this case, it might make more sense that all the money in safety projects wie INDECT investiert wird, stattdessen für Forschungsprojekte auszugeben welche dabei helfen könnten, das alle Menschen und Nationen dieser Welt etwas friedlicher und sicherer miteinander leben können.
All das setzt natürlich voraus, dass die ganze Geschichte mit der Bedrohung durch internationale islamistische Terrororganisationen überhaupt der Realität entspricht. Es existieren genügend Indizien die berechtigte Zweifel diesbezüglich aufkommen lassen könnten. Jedenfalls gibt es mittlerweile genügend gut fundierte Forschungsarbeiten über alle möglichen Fälle aus unserer nähren Vergangenheit, aus denen deutlich hervorgeht, dass nicht nur die bösen Schurkenstaaten und ihre Diktatoren, sondern auch unsere eigenen europäischen Staaten, und auch die NATO mit ihren Stay-Behind Organisationen [8] mehr als nur gelegentlich in terroristische Aktivitäten verwickelt waren und dies wohl auch immer noch sind. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es z.B. auch recht aufschlussreich, einmal die US-Army Definition von „ Low Intensity Warefare “, einer Taktik welche die USA ja ganz offiziell verfolgen, mit ihrer Definition von „Terrorismus“ im US-Code zu vergleichen. Dabei wird man feststellen, dass fast kein Unterschied zwischen beiden existiert. However, this was noted only in passing. In view of these facts would have to be still very different questions about the usefulness and benefits of security and provide surveillance programs, which are beyond the scope of this article, however.
Domingo Conte, 20. January 2011
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APPENDIX:
My research project to INDECT originally started from a purely personal interest. Over a period of more than a year, I collected all meticulously only to-find information together and studied them. Towards the end of 2010, I came up with the idea of \u200b\u200bwriting a small article on this subject and I thought: maybe this is it somehow and then released again.
The first rough draft of this article, consisting of 3.4 pages but grew quite fast and was becoming more and more detail. When he was finally close to 20 pages long, then I came first doubts. because the paper is now far too long and too technical, it was to publish in newspapers, etc., can, and I was wondering how much it actually makes sense to invest so much time and effort in this paper if, in the end but no one reads or if I would reach only a few people with it.
I was in my work but so late, I decided to make a first, rough draft suitable for publication online. This was on 1/14/2010. And the timing was well chosen any better. to my knowledge - - Already on the following Monday was the first, albeit brief report on INDECT on German television. By this time, a link appeared on my blog on the INDECT article in the German Wikipedia. And on the very day I had my first 600 visitors on this blog, on the fifth day there were already about 1000 - all on my part without any kind of advertising or promotion. All I had done until then was the link to pass on to my blog to a few friends and it to 2.3 other blogs, which had also published short reports on INDECT to post in the comments to it.
any rate, the interest on INDECT to be much larger than I had imagined it would actually meant - what I very pleased. Since many people have so far not ever heard of INDECT, I now decided to write this brief introduction to project INDECT to those who deal only recently with the theme to allow a little insight - given the fact that my research paper on project INDECT quite extensive and sometimes quite technical.
