Thursday, October 24, 2013

244. A espionagem a causar estragos

cartesian, BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU!



A NSA ( National Security Agency) a ligada ao telefone de Dra. Merkel. Ah,  Aha,  Aha!


O Eduardo Snowden está a libertar informações ao conta gotas sobre a espionagem Americana na Europa.  Isso tem de ser bem gerido para ser bem digerido e roer no tummy.

Obviamente que quem controla as centrais das comunicações digitais tem  a capacidade digital de ligar mais um fio, com os dígitos,  à casa das toupeiras.  

Agora os Europeus andam a acordar para a vida e a pensar em construir as suas próprias centrais digitais com material chinês. Libertam-se dum e vão-se meter noutro.

A maior pedra no charco será quando o Snowden e o Greenwald em copacabana libertarem informações sobre a espionagem inglesa das toupeiras do GCHQ. 

A data será obviamente bem calculada, timed, com a ajuda das cabecinhas pensadoras  do Kremlin a fim de provocar um tremor de terra em Bruxelas.

Isto é apenas especulação, mas é bastante plausível.  As atividades de espionagem europeia de Cheltenham não são novidade. 

"It quoted former Guardian journalists Glenn Greenwald as saying: "The NSA (National Surveillance Agency) is carrying out a lot of spying activities, also on European governments, including the Italian one.


L'Espresso said it would publish in its print edition, out on Friday, extracts of documents from US whistleblower Edward Snowden showing that Britain's Government Communications Headquarters also spied on Italian officials, sharing the information with the NSA."
Read more: http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2013_10_24/EUs-Barroso-warns-spying-can-lead-to-totalitarianism-8724/

Portanto o Ed Snowden terá de ser inovador e dizer mais pormenores sobre o assunto, sobretudo em matéria individual e comercial.

Isto está mesmo lindo.  Andam todos a conspirar uns contra os outros. São atividades de lazer, divertimento e desafios tecnológicos para essa gente.


Spying row: Merkel demands US trust at EU summit

Angela Merkel uses mobile phone. (File image)Angela Merkel has asked for an "immediate explanation" from the US
Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel has said it is "really not on" for friends to spy on each other, referring to alleged US snooping on her phone calls.
On arrival at an EU summit in Brussels Mrs Merkel said "we need trust between allies and partners, and such trust needs to be restored".
She said she had given that message to US President Barack Obama when they spoke on Wednesday.
Other EU leaders also voiced concern about the scale of US surveillance.
The spying row threatens to overshadow EU talks on the economy and migration. Mrs Merkel has demanded a "complete explanation" of the claims, which came out in the German media.

Analysis

The allegation that the US National Security Agency eavesdropped on the personal phone of a closely allied Western leader, if true, is unwelcome news but hardly surprising.
It has already been revealed that the NSA has been bugging closed discussions inside both the UN and the European Union.
The US has many shared interests with European nations like Germany - counter-terrorism being one of them. But when it comes to economic intelligence their interests can often diverge into outright competition.
The US, UK, Russia, China and many other nations all go to great lengths to acquire inside information on other countries covertly - that's what spies do.
One former insider says that, in the course of targeting other individuals, the NSA may well have eavesdropped on David Cameron's phone calls. The UK-US special relationship, he said, is not enshrined in law.
She grew up in former communist East Germany, where secret police surveillance was pervasive.
In a separate development, Italy's weekly L'Espresso reported that the US and UK had been spying on Italian internet and phone traffic.
The revelations were sourced to US whistleblower Edward Snowden. It is alleged that the US National Security Agency (NSA) and UK spy agency GCHQ eavesdropped on three undersea cables with terminals in Italy.
The Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said the alleged spying on Mrs Merkel's mobile phone calls was "serious" and added: "I will support her (Merkel) completely in her complaint and say that this is not acceptable - I think we need all the facts on the table first".
Finland's Prime Minister Jyrki Katainen echoed him, saying "we have to get clarification of what has happened and we also need a guarantee that this will never happen again, if it has happened".
Germany summoned the US ambassador in Berlin over the alleged spying.
Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle was meeting US envoy John Emerson in what is seen as an unusual step between close allies.

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The allegations that American spies have been tapping the phone of the German Chancellor Angela Merkel have sparked a political storm. But just how easy is it to listen to mobile phone calls?”
Mrs Merkel discussed the issue with President Obama on Wednesday. He told her the US was not monitoring her calls and would not in future, the White House said.
However, it left open the question of whether calls had been listened to in the past.
Cutting red tape
The formal agenda for the summit focuses on efforts to consolidate Europe's fragile economic recovery and to create a single market in digital services.
British PM David Cameron will also call on the EU to cut red tape on business.
But France's President Francois Hollande is pressing for the spying issue to be put on the agenda, following reports that millions of French calls have been monitored.
The veteran French EU Commissioner Michel Barnier told the BBC that "enough is enough", and confidence in the US had been shaken.
Mr Barnier, the commissioner for internal market and services, said Europe must not be naive but develop its own strategic digital tools, such as a "European data cloud" independent of American oversight.
Digital single market

EU summit agenda

Thursday
  • First session (18:15 local; 16:15 GMT): Digital economy, innovation and services - including the creation of a "digital single market" and improving ICT skills
  • Working dinner (20:15 local): Economic and social policy and the economic and monetary union - including youth unemployment, financing of the economy (in particular SMEs) and co-ordination of economic policies across the EU
Friday
  • Second session (10:00 local): Migratory flows and preparations for Eastern Partnership summit
  • News conference (tbc)
The digital economy is on the official summit agenda for Thursday evening.
One of the key initiatives of the European Commission is its Digital Agenda for Europe, which it says "aims to reboot Europe's economy and help Europe's citizens and businesses to get the most out of digital technologies".
Council officials say investment in the digital economy is vital to boost growth, which is creeping back to the European economy. They want to address market fragmentation and a perceived shortage in IT skills.
Mr Cameron is likely to use the economic discussion to raise what Britain sees as a proliferation of red tape.
He said last week: "All too often EU rules are a handicap for firms," and that small business owners "are forced to spend too much time complying with pointless, burdensome and costly regulations".
The European Commission - which makes the rules - has recognised that it may have gone too far in some places.
President Jose Manuel Barroso says he wants the EU to be "big on big things and smaller on smaller things".
He says the Commission has cut more than 5,000 legal acts in the past five years and wants to do more.
Shop owner Roger George says red tape and regulations are a burden on his business
On Friday the leaders will discuss relations with central European countries, ahead of a November summit in Lithuania, where new agreements will be signed.
Migration will also be discussed, following the loss of hundreds of lives among migrants trying to reach Europe from Africa and the Middle East.
The Commission has called on EU countries to offer "additional and urgent contributions" to prevent further tragedies at sea.

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    Comment number223.

     
    A lot of comments remark on how governments have been spying on each other for years so what's new?
    The difference is now governments are spying and collecting massive amounts of data on all of its own citizens and others from different countries. This data will be misused .
    The next step will be to incorporate cameras in all homes and vehicles plus tracking.....
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    Comment number215.

     
    During World War II the brilliant "spying" activities at Bletchley Park helped Britain enormously. It can be argued that today's interceptions are in principle no different. As other correspondents have pointed out, if your communications are insecure then whose fault is that? Maybe the Germans will now buy good old-fashioned typewriters as the Russians were reported to be recently doing.
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    Comment number185.

     
    I take a dim view of our allies getting caught like this. The NSA needs to review all its access procedures and invest heavily in new technologies to minimise human contact with the data it acquires.

    These revelations undermine all the good work carried out by the dedicated professionals at the NSA, GCHQ and elsewhere around the world.

    That said, Merkel's outcry is only for home consumption.
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    Comment number168.

     
    I have no problems with the spying especially among friends. They are the ones who sometimes fight against you. I am disappointed with the likes of Snowden and Assange. I think it is a betrayal to country and a breach of secrecy and they should be held accountable for their actions.
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    Comment number167.

     
    The worrying thing about this whole scandal is that it was only revealed because of the courage of one individual.

    How many years has this been going on? How many employees at security agencies have been keeping it a secret, and how could they bear not telling even their own friends and families that Big Brother was watching them? They're all scoundrels!
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