Israel's surveillance camera Nice Systems

Shortly after news broke about the Squeaky Dolphin program, surveillance researcher Dr Ben Hayes drew ip camera attention to Wire-X's "Content-based Social Network Analysis" and its similarities to GCHQ's Squeaky Dolphin. Wire-X's brochure, which is subtitled "Facing Social Networks", grabs attention with its heading "Good guys, Bad guys...They are all socializing online."

Named AQWIREX, the product "automatically intercept(s) and analyze(s) in real time the major social networks and extract all the relevant data including profile information, friends, feeds, and posts in order to provide a clear visualization of the entity and a mapping of all the target connections". The marketing material also says that the surveillance system can analyse emails, forums, and chats in real time, providing "real time packet analyse" and the ability to scale interception "from tactical to nationwide."

Through our Surveillance Industry Index, we have identified a similar technique being sold by surveillance companies, such as Israel's surveillance camera Nice Systems and their Horizon Insight product. Nice's Horizon Insight "Intercepts, formats and stores billions of telephony and IP events per data at a rate of thousands of data records per second" and performs integration with "all legacy sources with newly acquired sources in telephony, IP and open source fields to perform fusion of all intercepted data". The attempt to combine both the model of Open Source Intelligence gathering with mass surveillance and analysis of that material is illustrated in a diagram showing the pulling collation of disparate sources to form a stream of information able to be understood by an individual analyst or operator.

Sophisticated filtering provided within interception platforms can also lead to the targeting of particular websites. Italy's IPS sell a network interception platform called GENESI which centralises monitoring of IP networks, performing "real-time interception of different security systems types of Internet Content and Services ( i.e. email messages, Web accesses, Chat sessions)". This capability is combined with content filtering that can focus on content in the protocol header such as URL, which can then allow focus on particular services such as Facebook and YouTube. http://www.ipcctvcamera.net/