GCHQ reported to have access to almost all European internet traffic

[FarCenter]

Britain's GCHQ is reported to have wider access to Europe's electronic communications than previously thought. The media reports are based partly on documents released by former US intelligence officer Edward Snowden.


The reports published by the German public broadcaster NDR and the Süddeutsche newspaper said documents made available to them by Edward Snowden indicate that Britain's Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) is capable of gathering and analyzing data from almost all of the traffic that passes through Europe's internet network.

According to the reports, the GCHQ's capabilities are particularly strong with regard to Germany's electronic communications. This is made possible in large part due to a total of 14 fiber optic cables worldwide, which are used to deliver data between and countries and continents. Some of these lead to and from Germany's northern coast, and the German telecommunications giant Deutsche Telekom belongs to a consortium, which operates two of them.

These cables, the reports said, help the GCHQ to snoop on emails not just within Europe, but even within Germany. However, there is also another major contributing factor.

"Many online services have their servers for the European market in England or Ireland. And here too, the German traffic travels via Great Britain," journalist Jörg Schieb, who specializes in computers and the internet, told NDR.

http://www.dw.de/gchq-reported-to-have-access-to-almost-all-european-internet-traffic/a-17053061

[Jackpine Radical]

1. Nobody is spozta be paying attention to this stuff. Bomb Syria!

Bomb Syria! Bombsyria. Gassed his own people. bombsyria.

Tick-tock-tick-tock-
You are growing compliant.
Bomb Syria.

[KittyWampus]

2. do you have any commentary on the article posted? Just curious.

[Jackpine Radical]

3. Doesn't really require much commentary, does it?

Just more evidence of how nobody is really surveilling the entire developed world.

Meanwhile, our "intelligence" seems incapable of determining who actually gassed civilians in Syria, but let's blow the shit out of them anyway.

[KittyWampus]

5. One could comment on how this might effect Merkel's reelection. Or Germany's own cooperation w/NSA

and it's taking over old NSA operations inside Germany and expanding them.

for instance.

[KittyWampus]

4. Germany has not only cooperated w/NSA it has taken over old NSA operations & expanded-

So while Germany's politicians can play political football with the NSA, the problem still remains for them.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/german-intelligence-sends-massive-amounts-of-data-to-the-nsa-a-914821.html


Furthermore, Germany has problems with it's foreign intelligence AND it's domestic intelligence. The Far Right Neo-Nazis got away with murder while domestic intel was implicated in helping.

[Jackpine Radical]

6. I neither doubt nor dispute your commentary.

Be it the NSA, the FBI, the Five Eyes, the GCHQ, or the Bundesnachrichtendienst, or the unholy combination of all of them, I oppose their intrusive and warrantless intelligence gathering. Und Frau Merkel kann gehen, sich zu bumsen.

[Laelth]

7. k&r for exposure. n/t

-Laelth