On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 3:50 PM, Jeffrey Walton <noloa...@gmail.com> wrote: > https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/02/19/great-sim-heist/ > > AMERICAN AND BRITISH spies hacked into the internal computer network > of the largest manufacturer of SIM cards in the world, stealing > encryption keys used to protect the privacy of cellphone > communications across the globe
> On January 17, 2014, President Barack Obama gave a major address on the NSA > spying scandal. “The bottom line is that people around the world, regardless > of their nationality, should know that the United States is not spying on > ordinary people who don’t threaten our national security and that we take > their privacy concerns into account in our policies and procedures,” he said. > adding that the agency’s work is conducted within a “strict legal and policy > framework” ... The agency also said, “[T]he UK’s interception regime is > entirely compatible with the European Convention on Human Rights.” The NSA > declined to offer any comment. > The monitoring of the lawful communications of employees of major > international corporations shows that such statements by Obama, other U.S. > officials and British leaders — that they only intercept and monitor the > communications of known or suspected criminals or terrorists — were untrue. > “The NSA and GCHQ view the private communications of people who work for > these companies as fair game,” says the ACLU’s Soghoian. “These people were > specifically hunted and targeted by intelligence agencies, not because they > did anything wrong, but because they could be used as a means to an end.” > “It is governments massively engaging in illegal activities,” says Sophie > in’t Veld, a Dutch member of the European Parliament. “If you are not a > government and you are a student doing this, you will end up in jail for 30 > years.” Veld, who chaired the European Parliament’s recent inquiry into mass > surveillance exposed by Snowden, told The Intercept: “The secret services are > just behaving like cowboys. Governments are behaving like cowboys and nobody > is holding them to account.” > The U.S. represents Gemalto’s single largest market, accounting for some 15 > percent of its total business. This raises the question of whether GCHQ, > which was able to bypass encryption on mobile networks, has the ability to > access private data protected by other Gemalto products created for banks and > governments. > “It would mean that with a few antennas placed around Washington DC, the > Chinese or Russian governments could sweep up and decrypt the communications > of members of Congress, U.S. agency heads, reporters, lobbyists and everyone > else involved in the policymaking process and decrypt their telephone > conversations,” says Soghoian. > “I can only imagine how much money you could make if you had access to the > calls made around Wall Street,” You're all being raped and used... how does it feel? _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list cryptography@randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
