“Domestic Communications Assistance Center” is the kind of name you’d give to a couples counseling collective. At the FBI, though, it’s the name that’s been given to an agency designed to be at the cutting edge of digital snooping. The mission of the DCAC, located at the FBI facility in Quantico, Va., reportedly includes intercepting and decoding Skype conversations, building wiretap hardware, developing tools for analyzing gigabytes of data obtained from wireless carriers or social networks and providing a help desk for minor-league snoopers.
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DCAC: A Field Day for the Heat
Posted by: John P. Mello Jr. May 29, 2012 06:00 AM“Domestic Communications Assistance Center” is the kind of name you’d give to a couples counseling collective. At the FBI, though, it’s the name that’s been given to an agency designed to be at the cutting edge of digital snooping. The mission of the DCAC, located at the FBI facility in Quantico, Va., reportedly includes intercepting and decoding Skype conversations, building wiretap hardware, developing tools for analyzing gigabytes of data obtained from wireless carriers or social networks and providing a help desk for minor-league snoopers.