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Re: German intelligence tapped foreign desktops
From: Florian Weimer <fw () deneb enyo de>
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:57:42 +0100
* Gadi Evron:
I am not too impressed by the civil rights violation accusations. German law (IANA_G_L) includes German citizens. It is not a secret the BND is an intelligence agency nor that they spy on foreigners. I don't see what the big deal is about.
Some folks at DER SPIEGEL are pissed because the BND recovered private conversations between one of their staff reporters and some Afghan official. Everybody in the German media reads SPIEGEL ONLINE as the first thing in the morning, so their reporting tends to set the general mood. (DER SPIEGEL has previously suggested the converstations were neither business-related nor journalistic. TMI, I guess.)
The INTERESTING questions here is about the real stink: how was the BND's activity compromised to the press,
Ah, that's easy to answer. It was reported to parliamentary oversight committee, so it's essentially a press briefing by proxy.
and is it really just 2500 computers after "several years" of activity?
If you want to track specific targets, I guess it's quite a bit of work not to lose contact. _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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