The FSB suggested the use of SORM equipment already installed in the networks of operators and intended for wiretapping, to perform “Spring Package” requirements. On Wednesday, August 10, according to “Vedomosti».
It is clarified that today such equipment is used to record user traffic, for which the operative-search activities. The data are stored for 12 hours in a so-called annular SORM buffer.
09:26 June 24, 2016
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The FSB suggested to expand the existing memory buffer, so that the data stored for six months, as required by the “Spring package”. Besides, now hardware stores only user traffic, the FSB also proposes to add a circular buffer recording conversations.
As the newspaper writes, to SORM equipment could be used for the performance of “Spring Package”, it most likely, will have to incorporate an expensive search engine and indexing information. At the moment, a ring buffer works in such a way that access to certain records need to scroll through the entire array of data recorded after it.
Anti-terrorism package of laws designed deputy Irina Spring together with the head of the Federation Council Committee on Defense and Security Viktor Ozerov, was passed by the Parliament on June 24. In early July it was signed by the president of Russia.
The document introduces amendments to the Criminal and Criminal Procedure Codes, as well as 10 separate laws. In particular, service providers, as well as instant messengers and social networking owners were obliged to keep all information about the content of conversations and correspondence of members within six months. Part of the amendments will enter into force in July 2018
SORM -. The system hardware to provide the functions of operational-search activities, used in telephone networks, mobile and wireless communications and radio communications. Operators who do not agree on implementation plans for the SORM may be deprived of license.
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