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| New Snowdenski docs: NSA bugged UN in NYC |
| 2013-08-26 |
| [Rooters] The U.S. National Security Agency has bugged the United Nations' New York headquarters, Germany's Der Brings to mind bears and their woodland toiletry habits, that sort of thing. Citing secret U.S. documents obtained by fugitive former intelligence contractor Edward Snowdenski, Der Spiegel said the files showed how the United States systematically spied on other states and institutions. Hopefully we'll soon be evicted and banned forever. Der Spiegel said the European Union and the U.N.'s Vienna-based nuclear Valid enemy targets ek se. In the summer of 2012, NSA experts succeeded in getting into the U.N. video conferencing system and cracking its coding system, according one of the documents cited by Der Spiegel. "The data traffic gives us internal video teleconferences of the United Nations (yay!)," Der Spiegel quoted one document as saying, adding that within three weeks the number of decoded communications rose to 458 from 12. Internal files also show the NSA spied on the EU legation in New York after it moved to new rooms in autumn 2012. Among the documents copied by Snowden from NSA computers are plans of the EU mission, its IT infrastructure and servers. According to the documents, the NSA runs a bugging program in more than 80 embassies and consulates worldwide called "Special Collection Service". "The surveillance is intensive and well organized and has little or nothing to do with warding off terrorists," wrote Der Spiegel. Very likely "little to do with terrorists" anywhere I'd wager. Snowden's leaks have embarrassed the United States by exposing the global extent of its surveillance programs. Washington has said its spies operate within the law and that the leaks have damaged national security. Domestic espionage 'within the law'. An intriguing concept. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #8 I agree OS. The UN should be a very high priority target and I'm sure it is. The senior foreign service folks who work there are not former Sunday school superintendents or business accountants, they are in the intelligence business at one level or another. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2013-08-26 22:45 |
| #7 If Snowden is truly shocked by this then he is a rube. This sort of thing is what they are supposed to do. But not the US domestic surveillance. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2013-08-26 22:36 |
| #6 When it comes to networking, subnetworks separated by routers and switches hopefully prevent intruders from passing into the subnets, unless a program can be installed on the inside that allows for pass through. The beauty about the computer age is programs can be written to do anything. That is also a danger of the computer age. |
| Posted by: Uneaper Spairong8790 2013-08-26 18:35 |
| #5 What intelligence is of any value in the UN, anyway? While the UN itself is one giant useless force, fully half the participant states are card-carrying members of the Villains, Thieves and Scoundrels Union. Is the NSA doing it just to do it? It does sound kinda like a summer intern training project. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2013-08-26 10:37 |
| #4 NSA bugged UN in NYC To get the names of best restaurants & cathouses? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2013-08-26 08:40 |
| #3 Exactly, AP. Maybe they wanted to know the best place to get paper for strongly worded memos...and hookers, of course. |
| Posted by: Spot 2013-08-26 08:23 |
| #2 Paris has the Gare de Lyon and six other major train stations. New York City has only one major intelligence station. Been that way since the ribbon was cut. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2013-08-26 03:03 |
| #1 What intelligence is of any value in the UN, anyway? Is the NSA doing it just to do it? |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2013-08-26 01:27 |