This is a set of technical means and measures in Russia, designed to carry out operational-search activities in the networks of telephone, mobile and wireless communication and radio communication. It was developed for the KGB back in the late 1980s. Today SORM-1, SORM-2 and SORM-3 systems are in service of the Russian special services.In brief, the SORM system consists of three components:
Hardware and software part (installed by telecom operator)
A remote control unit (installed by law enforcement agencies)
Data transmission channels (provided by the provider for connection to the remote control point).
All telephone operators are required to transmit SORM-1 calls, SMS, any traffic of the monitored object, as well as service information or logs (switching on or off the phone, etc.) upon first request of the special services. Providers of Internet access should also store information of all their clients for the last day.SORM3 the latest version, provides a union of all the above systems and in addition monitors some of the VPN servers, wiretaps Skype, ICQ, satellite communications and a number of other innovations. But the key factor of SORM3 is a single global database, which is mutually related to different areas of SORM.The main function of SORM is global control of traffic on a nationwide scale.
SORM is installed in all data centers of the country, at all providers of different levels, at traffic communication points, at all search engines, Russian messengers and social networks.Moreover,
SORM employees actively cooperate with programmers who write communication systems, they contribute to the introduction of bookmarks (backdoors) in these programs to be able to listen in.
The third element of the system is the mandatory certification of cryptographic programs and devices, that is, you are not allowed to trade and develop cryptographic programs or cryptographic devices or protocols, all of them you have to certify. Here's a good site with a Russian version of the device SORM link
The same in the archive below will be a few articles about it.
SORM is in Russian, but if you are interested and do not know this language, I suggest that you use a translator.
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