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It would be very interesting to know, technically, what are the interception means. Does it target phone calls, emails, internal spys, other things? From other
by hbbio 11y ago
It would be very interesting to know, technically, what are the interception means. Does it target phone calls, emails, internal spys, other things?
From other documents, it appears that the NSA has the ability to listen to phone calls on French networks. As most of the "targets" use Orange, the historical telecom operator, and that collaboration from Orange with the NSA is unlikely, it would mean that their IT systems are owned.
Regarding email, most French companies use Microsoft products both as servers (Exchange) and client (Outlook). Are there exploitable vulnerabilities in these products?
As we are in that space, we have to push hard, for people even to consider French-written, open source communication software such as ours (https://github.com/MLstate/PEPS https://github.com/MLstate/PEPS).
- chaostheory 11y agohttp://www.networkworld.com/article/2458706/microsoft-subnet/about-those-alleged-backdoors-in-microsoft-products.html http://www.networkworld.com/article/2458706/microsoft-subnet... "Although the feds denied it, Peter Biddle, the head of the engineering team working on BitLocker in 2005, claimed that the government makes 'informal requests' for backdoors. Allegedly after making claims about 'going dark,' the FBI 'informally' asked Microsoft for a backdoor in BitLocker."
- Zigurd 11y ago> From other documents, it appears that the NSA has the ability to listen to phone calls on French networks. As most of the "targets" use Orange, the historical telecom operator, and that collaboration from Orange with the NSA is unlikely, it would mean that their IT systems are owned. It's probably much worse than that. France, Germany, and most of the rest of Europe are vassal states of the US through cooperation among intelligence agencies. In other words, France is being sold out not only by Orange and/or employees of Orange, but by their own intelligence services who have a stronger allegiance to their links with Five Eyes intelligence services than to French interests. This is another reason "everyone does it" doesn't hold water as a justification. The situation is massively asymmetrical.
- renaudg 11y agoby their own intelligence services who have a stronger allegiance to their links with Five Eyes intelligence services than to French interests. This is probably pushing it a little too far.
- Zigurd 11y agoMeh. Do you think the French are governed by a government with actual autonomy to go wherever the people wish to be led, or just pretend autonomy within a narrow range of bouncing a little to the left or right within the neoliberal framework?