p2pnet view Freedom | P2P:- Canada’s spy agency has torn a page from Google’s implausible deniability book.

When the Google’s Street View SnoopMobiles were caught after three years of collecting data from unsecured WiFi systems, it claimed it was all just an ‘accident’.

Statements by an ex-Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) operative suggested the agency secretly monitors public library computers, emails and web sites for ‘key words’.

Ex-CSIS operator Michel Juneau-Katsuya (right) told the Ottawa Citizen alleged ‘terror’ cell ringleader Hiva Alizadeh “used Ottawa Public Library computers to communicate with other members of the Ottawa-based cell”, said p2pnet yesterday, quoting the Montreal Gazette.

“Internet messages among the men triggered computer ’sniffers’ monitoring electronic signals at Ottawa’s Communication’s Security Establishment, the national cryptologic agency, which alerted the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS)”, said the story, which had Juneau-Katsuya stating >>>

They wanted to hit Parliament Hill and there was discussion of going against public transportation in Montreal because one of the guys had studied there and knew the system.

One of the (CSE) filters picked up their chat. The way the system is established, we’ve got red flags everywhere and you can trip one of those flags anytime.

If you’re travelling to Pakistan, that’s a red flag. If you’re going on certain web sites, that’s another red flag, and if you use in e-mail certain key words. When you’ve got enough red flags, then you become a person of interest. My understanding is they were caught from the Internet.

But No Worries, says CSIS. If does pick up private emails or cellphone chats, it’s “unintentional”.

A Montreal Gazette follow-up has Communications Security Establishment (CSE) spokesman Adrian Simpson promising “the agency only spies on the electronic communication of foreign targets — non-Canadians living outside of Canada”.

According to the story, he said the only way the agency “would be able to pick up the communications of a Canadian is if that foreign entity corresponded with a Canadian.”

“Three Ontario men — all Canadian citizens — were arrested last week”, it says, adding:

“Authorities allege the men conspired with individuals or groups in Canada and abroad, including in Iran, Afghanistan, Dubai and Pakistan, to carry out terrorist activities.”

But “Legal experts have said that one area that defence lawyers will likely scrutinize is how authorities went about collecting the suspects’ communications.”

(Cheers, Marc)

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p2pnet – ‘Terrorist’ suspects ’sniffed’ online, August 30, 2010
Montreal Gazette – Montreal métro, Parliament Hill reported terror targets, August 28, 2010
Montreal Gazette – We don’t peek into emails or eavesdrop on Canadians: Spy agency, August 30, 2010

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