Enemy of the State (1998)
Film ini bercerita tentang pembunuhan senator yg melibatkan direktur NSA (National Security Agency).
Kejadian ini diketahui seorang pengamat satwa, yang akhirnya karena
dikejar oleh agen NSA, memberikan kepada seorang pengacara (Robert
Clayton Dean / Will Smith) tanpa diketahui si pengacara. Direktur NSA
menggunakan kekuatan/kekuasaan yg dimiliki NSA, membuat hari2 si
pengacara semakin berat. Dan, biasa lah, akhirnya si pengacara ini,
bersama mantan agen NSA yg ikut jadi target (Edward ‘Brill’ Lyle / Gene
Hackman), bisa mengalahkan si direktur NSA ini (Thomas Brian Reynolds /
Jon Voight).
Brill: You’re the threat now. Just like I was.
Robert Clayton Dean: Threat to whom? To them?
Brill:
No. To your family, your friends, everybody you know, everybody you
meet. That’s why I went away and didn’t come back. You’ve got to go
away, Robert.
Robert Clayton Dean: No, I don’t think so. This
is my life, I worked hard for it and I want it back. I grew up without
a father, I know what that is. And I will not allow my family to go
through that.
Teknologi
informasi memungkinkan integrasinya semua informasi / telekomunikasi,
diharapkan sangat meningkatkan efisiensi & efektivitas kegiatan
manusia. Dari makin mudahnya urusan perbankan, bisnis, & transaksi,
sampai pada pendidikan dan lain2. Tetapi seperti yang lain, hal ini
adalah netral alias bisa dipakai secara positif maupun negatif, dan
film ini menunjukkan pemakaiannya secara negatif dan masif.
Ketika membuka Yahoo Messenger, ada berita:
NSA has massive database of Americans’ phone calls:
By Leslie Cauley, USA TODAY
The
National Security Agency has been secretly collecting the phone call
records of tens of millions of Americans, using data provided by
AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth, people with direct knowledge of the
arrangement told USA TODAY.
Congress Demands Phone Records Answers:
By LAURIE KELLMAN and DONNA CASSATA, Associated Press Writer
31 minutes ago
WASHINGTON
- Lawmakers demanded answers from the Bush administration Thursday
about a spy agency secretly collecting records of millions of ordinary
Americans’ phone calls to build a database of all calls within the
country.
Data on Phone Calls Monitored:
Extent of Administration’s Domestic Surveillance Decried in Both Parties
By Barton Gellman and Arshad Mohammed
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, May 12, 2006; Page A01
The
Bush administration has secretly been collecting the domestic telephone
records of millions of U.S. households and businesses, assembling
gargantuan databases and attempting to sift through them for clues
about terrorist threats, according to sources with knowledge of the
program.
Lawyer: Ex-Qwest Exec Ignored NSA Request
By KATHERINE SHRADER, Associated Press Writers
WASHINGTON
- Telecommunications giant Qwest refused to provide the government with
access to telephone records of its 15 million customers after deciding
the request violated privacy law, a lawyer for a former company
executive said Friday. For a second day, the former National Security
Agency director defended the spy agency’s activities.
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In
a written statement, the attorney for former Qwest CEO Joseph Nacchio
said the government approached the company in the fall of 2001 seeking
access to the phone records of Qwest customers, with neither a warrant
nor approval from a special court established to handle surveillance
matters.
"Mr. Nacchio concluded that these requests violated the
privacy requirements of the Telecommunications Act," attorney Herbert
J. Stern said from his Newark, N.J., office.
— end of news —
Congressman Sam Albert:
[On TV] We knew that we had to monitor our enemies. We’ve also come to
realise that we need to monitor the people who are monitoring them…
Carla Dean: Well who’s gonna monitor the monitors of the monitors.
Robert Clayton Dean: I wouldn’t mind doing a little monitoring myself. 
ECHELON
is a term associated with a global network of computers that
automatically search through millions of intercepted messages for
pre-programmed keywords or fax, telex and e-mail addresses. Every word
of every message in the frequencies and channels selected at a station
is automatically searched. The processors in the network are known as
the ECHELON Dictionaries. ECHELON connects all these computers and
allows the individual stations to function as distributed elements an
integrated system. An ECHELON station’s Dictionary contains not only
its parent agency’s chosen keywords, but also lists for each of the
other four agencies in the UKUSA system [NSA, GCHQ, DSD, GCSB and CSE]
