Second Echelon is a branch of the National Security Agency that focused entirely on the new breed of high-tech communications technology that evolved after the Cold War and ECHELON.[1]
Unfortunately, the immense volume of information combined with the accelerated pace of developing technology and encryption overwhelmed Second Echelon. The NSA experienced its first system-wide crash on January 22, 2001. From February 3 to September 7, 2001, Dermot P. Brunton was consulted by the NSA on restructuring the network.
Personnel[]
Prior to 2004, Anna Grímsdóttir was "briefly" an employee of Second Echelon (later Third Echelon). According to her, she had "ideological differences" to the organization and left because, "It didn't respect the human element." She was there in 2000 during the system-wide burnout.