DRTBOX and the DRT surveillance systems

Make sure to watch the Youtube video posted at the end:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWeFP06c4XA

Shows a hand-held DRT-made wireless snooping device deployed in a real mission in Afganistan. I find the floating router-style device coming out of the soldiers backpack amusing compared to the others carrying rifles. A good example of modern warfare (similar to drones).

Also, this part is intersting:

> For example, Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) teams and other paramilitary tactical units could effectively control wireless communications by suspects in a building during a raid.

Assuming they have warrantless wiretapping laws which is why so many governments are pushing for it at the police-level.

This company, DRT states that it creates systems for US SigInt and therefore can't talk about those system. Although I personally don't agree with indiscriminate use on foreigners in countries with are allied with, I accept the argument that there are circumstances where doing so is fine and dandy when those sigint systems are employed outside the borders of the United States.

What I simply don't get is why the US government is allowed to keep anything secret that is used on a civilian (non-combatant) population of American citizens within US borders during times of peace. This notion that we allow the government to do anything at all in secrecy that involves its own citizens simply makes no sense and I don't know why any US citizens would vote to allow it.

I would love to see a anti-secrecy act that prohibits laws and contracts (NDAs) on any program that targets US citizens at all, especially when warrants are not involved.

I don't know how any group of people elected to a responsibility for governance simultaneously claim to represent our best interests and keep us in the dark about how they are doing so.

Tom's comments are pretty interesting :)