WikiLeaks Spy Files: Russia Docs - SORM, PETER-SERVICE, FSB

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Spy Files Russia

This publication continues WikiLeaks' Spy Files series with releases
about surveillance contractors in Russia.

While the surveillance of communication traffic is a global phenomena,
the legal and technological framework of its operation is different
for each country. Russia's laws - especially the new Yarovaya Law -
make literally no distinction between Lawful Interception and mass
surveillance by state intelligence authorities (SIAs) without court
orders. Russian communication providers are required by Russian law to
install the so-called SORM ( Система Оперативно-Розыскных Мероприятий)
components for surveillance provided by the FSB at their own expense.
The SORM infrastructure is developed and deployed in Russia with close
cooperation between the FSB, the Interior Ministry of Russia and
Russian surveillance contractors.

PETER-SERVICE

19 September, 2017
English | Русский

Today, September 19th 2017, WikiLeaks starts publishing the series
"Spy Files Russia" with documents from the Russian company
Петер-Сервис (PETER-SERVICE). This release includes 209 documents (34
base documents in different versions) dated between 2007 and 2015.

PETER-SERVICE was founded 1992 in St. Petersburg as a provider for
billing solutions and soon became the major supplier of software for
the mobile telecommunications industry in Russia. Today it has more
than 1000 employees in different locations in Russia, and offices in
major cities in Russia and Ukraine. The technologies developed and
deployed by PETER-SERVICE today go far beyond the classical billing
process and extend into the realms of surveillance and control.
Although compliance to the strict surveillance laws is mandatory in
Russia, rather than being forced to comply PETER-SERVICE appears to be
quite actively pursuing partnership and commercial opportunities with
the state intelligence apparatus.

As a matter of fact PETER-SERVICE is uniquely placed as a surveillance
partner due to the remarkable visibility their products provide into
the data of Russian subscribers of mobile operators, which expose to
PETER-SERVICE valuable metadata, including phone and message records,
device identifiers (IMEI, MAC addresses), network identifiers (IP
addresses), cell tower information and much more. This enriched and
aggregated metadata is of course of interest to Russian authorities,
whose access became a core component of the system architecture.

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