Topic: SECURITY - on November 2, 2013 at 4:28:00 PM CET
How NSA targeted chancellor Merkel's mobile phone
Last week, the German weekly Der Spiegel revealed that NSA intercepted the mobile phone of the German chancellor Angela Merkel. Although most details were not known yet, the fact itself caused a severe crisis in the relationship between the United States and Germany.
Meanwhile, the original NSA targeting record containing chancellor Merkel's phone number has been published. One of the entries refers to a document about the NSA's SYNAPSE data model, which was disclosed earlier and provides us with a context for the targeting record. Finally, an impression of how the interception could have been conducted is given by a picture of the SCS interception equipment, which is presumably located in the US embassy in Berlin.
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Topic: SECURITY - on November 2, 2013 at 4:26:00 PM CET
NSA Spied 125 Billion Phone Calls in a Month
It seems that Greenwald already listed the US DNR total, and since he is looking at better images than I am (I am reading the Hindu's images), I'm inclined to take his total. (though not the interpretation of it, I've gone into the reasons enough times)
"There are no precise figures, but last January Brazil was just behind the United States, which had 2.3 billion phone calls and messages spied."
I have a US aggregate figure from Le Monde (3,095,533,478), Greenwald's rounded DNR figure from O Globo (2,300,000,000), which leaves the approximate US DNI total to be (795,533,478)
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Topic: SECURITY - on November 2, 2013 at 4:22:00 PM CET
NSA-Affäre: Flächendeckende Abhörung in Österreich
Laut dem Nachrichtenmagazin "profil", das einen ehemaligen US-Agenten interviewt hat, betreibt die NSA in Österreich eine Abhörstation.
In Österreich dürfte die NSA in Österreich genauso flächendeckend Telefonate erfassen und überwachen, wie es zuletzt aus anderen Ländern bekannt geworden ist: "Gehen Sie davon aus, dass das geschieht. Die Überwachung von internationalen Kommunikationsverbindungen ist gängige Praxis der NSA und eine Doktrin zur Unterstützung nationaler amerikanischer Interessen," wird ein "ehemaliger US-Agent" in einem Interview des Nachrichtenmagazins "profil" vorab zitiert (Montag-Ausgabe).
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Topic: SECURITY - on November 2, 2013 at 4:20:00 PM CET
NSA files decoded: Edward Snowden's surveillance revelations explained
When Edward Snowden met journalists in his cramped room in Hong Kong's Mira hotel in June, his mission was ambitious. Amid the clutter of laundry, meal trays and his four laptops, he wanted to start a debate about mass surveillance.
He succeeded beyond anything the journalists or Snowden himself ever imagined. His disclosures about the NSA resonated with Americans from day one. But they also exploded round the world.
For some, like Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren, it is a vitally important issue, one of the biggest of our time: nothing less than the defence of democracy in the digital age.
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Topic: SECURITY - on November 2, 2013 at 4:18:00 PM CET
GCHQ and European spy agencies worked together on mass surveillance
The German, French, Spanish and Swedish intelligence services have all developed methods of mass surveillance of internet and phone traffic over the past five years in close partnership with Britain's GCHQ eavesdropping agency.
The bulk monitoring is carried out through direct taps into fibre optic cables and the development of covert relationships with telecommunications companies. A loose but growing eavesdropping alliance has allowed intelligence agencies from one country to cultivate ties with corporations from another to facilitate the trawling of the web, according to GCHQ documents leaked by the former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden.
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Topic: DRUGS - on November 2, 2013 at 4:16:00 PM CET
Ganzes Dorf in Albanien nach Arbeit auf Hanffeld berauscht
Ein ganzes Dorf im Süden von Albanien hat nach der Arbeit auf örtlichen Cannabisplantagen medizinische Hilfe wegen akuter Rauscherscheinungen gesucht. Mindestens 700 Menschen, die meisten von ihnen Frauen, hätten an "schweren Störungen durch eine Cannabisvergiftung" gelitten, sagte der Arzt Hysni Luka vom Krankenhaus der nahegelegenen Stadt Gjirokastra. Ihr Leiden komme offensichtlich von der Arbeit auf den Cannabisplantagen in Lazaret.
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