Signals Intelligence

As a Signals Intelligence ( SIGINT) is the extraction of information, usually consisting of the two main categories

• Communications intelligence (English Communication Intelligence - COMINT ) to listen for radio signals and
• Electronic Enlightenment ( engl. Electronic Intelligence - ELINT ) to collect and analyze other electronic signals,

Referred to.

• Another subset, the Foreign Instrumentation Signals Intelligence ( FISINT ) dar.

General

Such educational activities operate mostly military or civilian intelligence services, such as in Germany for the production of information security-related species outside their own territory, the Federal Intelligence Service (BND ), but also the Armed Forces, surgically performed by the electronic warfare ( electronic warfare ).

After his 1999 article of the listening expert Erich Schmidt- Eenboom Susceptible to Secret - The ( West) German intelligence services in the ether Christiane Schulzki Haddouti created informative, geographically scaled, but now completely outdated maps of the locations of listening devices in the Federal Republic of Germany. Operator of the listening devices include the BND, Federal Police, the Armed Forces and the NATO powers.

SIGINT is operated from the ground, at sea and in the air. For a long time continued the Bundeswehr for this purpose Breguet Atlantic aircraft of the type BR -1150 in the SIGINT version, which should be replaced by unmanned Euro Hawk drones; However, the program was discontinued in May 2013. Furthermore, the Bundeswehr operates in addition to the locations for signals intelligence and electronic intelligence listening posts of the two towers at the former inner-German border for training purposes.

SIGINT is a private education area, but also particularly in reconnaissance system with an imaging reconnaissance valuable. While an image (photo, radar, video ) is more or less only the geographical location, SIGINT determined as a supplement to the application. By, for example, listening to the radio messages and command codes, as well as detecting the operational modes of the radars can be concluded that the use of the command shown in the image units / vehicles / systems.

An important secondary objective of SIGINT is also determining its own compromise, such as the determination of the emanations of its own command post or weapon system or radio transmitter in the field of electronic emission minimization.

Based on the meaning of the term for SIGINT intelligence coverage Eavesdropping ( signal intelligence ) of the same fair SIGINT was justified by the Chaos Computer Club. It deals in addition to developments encryptions and classic hacking priority to social and economic aspects of digitization. It will be held in the Cologne Media Park, most recently in 2013.

Interception systems of other states in the Federal Republic

Under an agreement after the reunification of Germany accounted for the official justification for a continuation of the Allied - listening devices. They were strategically deployed mainly on the border with Warsaw Pact system. They were gradually reduced, for example by blowing up the French Horch tower on the mountain " Stöberhai " in the western Harz 2005.

Previously, it was removed on the Brocken as the first ex - Soviet electronics central station that served the " radio electronic warfare ," according to the Ostsprachgebrauch. Then you dismantled the U.S. pin-shaped " eavesdropper " on the Worm Mountain. Several monitoring facilities of the Armed Forces, among others, on the eastern slope of the Hessian High Meissner, on the Große Arber, in Barwedel and Thurau, followed thereafter. As one of the last of the massive British radio direction finding equipment to fall in the northern Harz.