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Did a Rogue NSA Operation Cause the Death of a Greek Telecom Employee?
- acdha 11y agoIf true, this fills in a lot of details to previous coverage and confirms the U.S. involvement which was suspected for years, not to mention answering why they'd put so much effort into compromising Greece. Schneier gave it a bit of coverage when the story started to break back in 2006: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/02/phone_tapping_i.html https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/02/phone_tapping... https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/03/more_on_greek_w.html https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/03/more_on_greek... https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/06/greek_wiretappi_1.html https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/06/greek_wiretap... The IEEE Spectrum had a long piece back in 2007: http://spectrum.ieee.org/telecom/security/the-athens-affair http://spectrum.ieee.org/telecom/security/the-athens-affair (Wikipedia has links to a bunch of foreign coverage I hadn't seen before, which appear to share the same general suspicion without hard proof: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_wiretapping_case_2004–05 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_wiretapping_case_2004–05)
- hoers 11y agofuck.
- hoers 11y agoIf yes: get those criminals.
- rurban 11y agoI'm missing the relevant comparisons to the similar Italy case.
- br_smartass 11y agoSo... Why was this removed from the first page?
- rasz_pl 11y agono nooo, It was an accident, just like that GCHQ guy found dead naked in a suitcase padlocked from the outside.
- guyinblackshirt 11y agodetails about the hack: http://spectrum.ieee.org/telecom/security/the-athens-affair http://spectrum.ieee.org/telecom/security/the-athens-affair
- delibaltas 11y agoI was a friend of Costas since our years in the University and of his fiancee since she was in the elementary school. When we learned that he had "committed suicide" nothing about the wire tapping scandal was known of course. At his funeral everybody was saying things like "how he lost his mind". I was telling to everyone that "people do not lose their minds and commit suicide like that", "something else must be behind this death, which is not suicide". You see this was not a conspiracy theory that was born AFTER the scandal was uncovered. The suicide assumption was just not a plausible scenario in any case.