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Europe     Európa

Austria

Sep 13, 2013     Alleged 'NSA' post in Austria becomes state affair
    A stately villa in a leafy district of the Austrian capital is at the center of a ruckus over whether the 'NSA' is snooping on the city's residents, with allegations flying that the building serves as a sophisticated a U.S. intelligence listening post. Both the U.S. and Austrian governments deny reports claiming to expose a major surveillance operation by the 'National Security Agency' from within the towers of the sprawling manor. They say the building is nothing more than an 'Open Source Center' evaluating information freely available in newspapers and on the Internet — albeit one run by the 'CIA'. With passions high over the 'NSA', Austrians question the need for any kind of U.S. intelligence gathering in their capital, including open source centers. Austria's 'Kurier' newspaper reported this week that the U.S. government had decided to end operations at the site within a year or two — and suggested that was because its cover was blown. 'CIA' spokesman Price refused comment in an email to 'The Associated Press' on September 12. Austria's National Security Council will convene in the next few weeks to discuss what went on inside the building after opposition parties and even some government coalition members called for such a meeting. The conservative-run Interior Ministry denies cooperation with the 'NSA' and suggests that — if there is any such collaboration — it must come from the Defense Ministry, run by the rival party. Green party member Pilz who sits on Parliament's security and intelligence committee, asserts that intelligence services run by both ministries work with and protect the 'NSA'. The villa is "clearly a U.S. intelligence center and according to our information NSA" - he says, citing unnamed Austrian government officials as his source. (Source: 'AP'"): http://tinyurl.com/nk66ova

France

September 27, 2013     'NSA' internet spying sparks race.
    France supports stronger data-protection laws that include how data can be transferred to countries outside the European Union and a new data-privacy regulator. (Source: "The Wall Street Journal").

Németország     Germany

2013. IX. 7.      Tízezrek tüntettek Berlinben . A német fővárosban mintegy húszezren vonultak az utcákra, az osztrák fővárosban körülbelül ötszázan. A tüntetők mindenekelőtt az amerikai 'Nemzetbiztonsági Ügynökség' ('NSA') közelmúltban napvilágot látott titkos lehallgatási tevékenysége ellen tiltakoztak, és hatékonyabb adatvédelmet sürgettek. Berlinben a demonstrálók tüntettek a német kormány ellen is, tétlenséggel vádolva azt, mert az amerikai titkosszolgálat állításuk szerint német állampolgárokat is lehallgathatott. A felszólalók arra hívták fel a figyelmet, hogy a hírszerző szervek - köztük az 'NSA' - gátlástalanul kémlelik a telefon-, illetve internet-összeköttetéseket. A tiltakozó megmozdulásokat ellenzéki pártok, polgárjogi csoportok, valamint az internet szabadságáért küzdő aktivisták szervezték. (Forrás: MTI)     07 September 2013     Thousands took to the streets in Berlin in protests against Internet surveillance activities by the US 'National Security Agency' and other intelligence agencies, and the German government's perceived lax reaction to them. Demonstrators carried banners saying: "Thanks to 'PRISM' (the US government's vast data collection programs) the government finally knows what the people want". (Source: 'France 24')     September 07, 2013     Spiegel has learned from internal 'NSA' documents that the US intelligence agency has the capability of tapping user data from the 'iPhone'. Mini-programs, so-called 'scripts', enable additional access to at least thirty-eight 'iPhone' features. A 2009 'NSA' document states that it can 'see and read SMS traffic". It also notes there was a period in 2009 when the 'NSA' was temporarily unable to access "BlackBerry' devices. In March 2010, the department responsible at Britain's 'GCHQ' intelligence agency declared in a top secret document it had regained access to 'BlackBerry' data and celebrated with the word, 'champagne!'. The 'NSA' has succeeded in accessing the "BlackBerry' mail system, which is known to be very secure. This could mark a huge setback for the company. The material viewed by "Spiegel' suggests that the spying on smart phones has not been a mass phenomenon. It has been targeted, in some cases in an individually tailored manner and without the knowledge of the smart phone companies. (Source: "Spiegel"): http://tinyurl.com/kradbdq.     2013. IX. 8.     Okos-telefonokba is belelát az 'NSA' - írta a 'Der Spiegel". Az ügynökség egy 2010-es elemzés nyomán munkacsoportokat állított fel az 'Apple'-féle 'iPhone' telefonok és az 'iOS' operációs rendszer tanulmányozására, a 'Google' által kifejlesztett 'Android' operációs rendszer vizsgálatára, valamint annak feltárására, hogy miként lehet feltörni a legbiztonságosabb okostelefonként számon tartott "Blackberry' készülékeket. A kiszivárogtatott anyagok nem hagynak kétséget afelől, hogy ha az amerikai titkosszolgálati szerv megfigyelési célpontként határoz meg egy okos-telefont, akkor megtalálja a módját, hogy hozzáférjen a benne tárolt adatokhoz, például híváslistákhoz, 'SMS'-ekhez, és akár a készülék kamerájával készített felvételekhez is. Az adatok kinyeréséhez a készüléktulajdonosok is hozzásegítik az 'NSA'-t, mert elhanyagolják az adatbiztonság kérdését. (Forrás: MTI)     September 9, 2013     The German government confirmed that a previously reported operation targeting potential American eavesdropping facilities located on German soil took place at the end of August. Both a spokesperson for Chancellor  Merkel and the Interior Ministry admitted that a Federal Police helicopter had conducted a low-altitude flyover of the United States Consulate in Frankfurt in order to take high-resolution photographs. The apparent aim of the mission was to identify suspected listening posts on the roof of the consulate. The "Eurocopter" circled over the US representation at an altitude of just sixty meters (two hundred feet). Germany wanted to send a message to the Americans that it would not tolerate eavesdropping technologies on German soil. The Interior Ministry said merely that the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, which had ordered the helicopter flyover, is responsible for the security of foreign installations in Germany, but also for defending the country from the spying activities of foreign countries. The Frankfurt operation was ordered by Pofalla, Merkel's chief of staff and the German government point man for intelligence services. According to the American whistleblower Snowden, the National Security Agency's ('NSA') surveillance service has established secret eavesdropping posts at eighty US embassies and consulates around the world. In the internal documents exposed by Snowden, these are referred to as the 'Special Collection Service'. The papers also state that the bugging units should be kept secret from partner countries. (Source: "Spiegel online"): http://tinyurl.com/os6gf7o.     2013. IX. 11.     Az 'NSA'-botrány miatt bővíti számítógépközpontjait a "Systeme, Anwendungen und Produkte in der Datenverarbeitung” (SAP)  A német adatfeldolgozási cég az amerika-i internetes titkos adatgyűjtési botrány miatt felgyorsította saját számítógépközpontjainak bővítését. Leukert, a "SAP" innovációs igazgatója a német 'dpa' hírügynökségnek elmondta: felgyorsítják számítógépközpontjaik bővítését világszerte. "Nagy előnyt jelent számunkra, hogy felhő alapú szolgáltatásainkat a német jogrend szerint kínáljuk" - mondta. "Előnyünkre válik az is, hogy vállalati székhelyünk elegendő számítógépközpont felett rendelkezik Németországban" - hangsúlyozta. Az amerika-i 'Successfactors' és az 'Ariba' vállalat akvizíciójával a "SAP" hat számítógépközpontra tett szert az Egyesült Államok-ban, Európában és Ausztráliá-ban. További négy számítógépközpont megépítése van tervbe véve Kíná-ban, Oroszország-ban, Brazíliá-ban és Kanadá-ban. "Az igény megvan rá, ezért bővítjük kapacitásunkat" - mondta. "Ügyfeleink számára világszerte fontossá vált, hogy konkrétan hol tárolják az adataikat, és melyik régióból kik kezelik ezeket" - mutatott rá. A 'SAP' Kíná-ban is saját számítógépközpontot tervez létesíteni. Nem kínai vállalatok számára eddig nem volt egyszerű feladat saját számítógépközpontjaikban futó szolgáltatásaikat kínai vállalatoknak értékesíteni. Ezért alakított a 'SAP' 2011-ben közös vállalatot a kínai 'CCS' informatikai vállalattal. "Hosszú távú céljaink között szerepel saját számítógépközpont építése is Kíná-ban, és tárgyalásokat folytatunk ennek érdekében a kína-i illetékesekkel" - mondta Leukert. (Forrás: MTI)     September 27, 2013     Germany has called on the European Union to cancel data-sharing agreements with the U.S. 'Deutsche Telecom", others have launched a service called "Email Made in Germany", intended to wean users off 'Gmail' and "Yahoo'. More than a hundred thousand Germans have flocked to the service since it was rolled out in August. Because Germany has strict privacy laws, customers who send email to fellow subscribers can be assured the U.S. and German governments will have a difficult time accessing the users' messages; Germans can ensure their privacy for email to people on German soil. For small German companies competing against big ones — like online-security company "Symantec Corp.' and "Amazon.com Inc.', which provides corporate cloud services — the 'NSA' surveillance program "is a present from heaven" - says Dehning, chief executive of "antispameuropeGmbH", which builds spam-protection software. "It's kind of an opportunity to strike back and protect our home market." (Source: 'The Wall Street Journal").

Russia    Oroszország

September 2, 2013     Russia issues travel warning to its citizens about United States and extradition. ’Warning for Russian citizens traveling internationally’ - the Foreign Ministry bulletin said. ’Recently, detentions of Russian citizens in various countries, at the request of American law enforcement, have become more frequent — with the goal of extradition and legal prosecution in the United States.’ Citing examples in Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Lithuania and Spain, the Foreign Ministry said: ’Experience shows that the judicial proceedings against those who were in fact kidnapped and taken to the U.S. are of a biased character, based on shaky evidence, and clearly tilted toward conviction.’ (Source: 'The New York Times'): http://tinyurl.com/qgq2kbj.     2013. IX. 17.     Snowden kísérettel már kimerészkedik az utcára - derült ki a férfi orosz ügyvédjének, Kucserena-nak a 'Russia Today' angol nyelvű televízió számára adott nyilatkozatából. Az amerikai informatikusnak - saját kérésére - kíséretet biztosítottak; egy biztonsági magáncég emberei vigyáznak rá. Kucserena úgy tudja, hogy  Snowden-nek vannak még birtokában olyan anyagok, amelyeket nem szivárogtatott ki. (Forrás: MTI)

Európai Unió    European Union

2013. IX. 5.     Kettős mércét emleget Reding a titkos adatgyűjtéssel kapcsolatban. Tapasztalata szerint ha egy keleti tagállamban nyomást gyakorolnak egy újságíróra, akkor a német, a brit, a francia, a svéd és a finn külügyminiszter izgatott lesz, és az Európai Bizottság (EB) beavatkozását kéri, az Európai Parlament azonnal plenáris vitát kezdeményez és határozati javaslatot készít, amelyikben elítéli a történteket. "Ezek a miniszterek és képviselők egyetlen egyszer sem telefonáltak, amikor  Mirandá-t letartóztatták a londoni repülőtéren három héttel ezelőtt, vagy amikor a "The Guardian"-nek meg kellett semmisítenie bizonyos bizonyítékokat a brit kormány kérésére" - jelentette ki. Rámutatott: az EB-nek nem szabad belesétálnia a "Kelet-ellenes" előítéletek csapdájába a jogállamiságról folyó vitákban.     Kezdetét vette az Európai Parlament (EP) vizsgálata az amerikai 'Nemzetbiztonsági Ügynökség' által végzett titkos adatgyűjtés ügyében.  Az állampolgári jogokkal, bel- és igazságüggyel foglalkozó bizottságnak ("LIBE") év végéig kell véglegesítenie jelentését, amelyikről várhatóan 2014 januárjában szavazhat az EP. Jelentéstevő a brit munkáspárti Moraes. Az első meghallgatáson szót kapott Rusbridger, az adatgyűjtést feltáró brit "The Guardian" főszerkesztője, Follorou, a francia 'Le Monde' zsurnalisztája, aki Franciaországban derített fényt az 'NSA'-hez hasonló ügyekre és Applebaum, jelenleg Németországban élő amerikai internetes biztonsági szakértő, hacker. Rusbridger, a "The Guardian" főszerkesztője szerint merőben új jelenség, hogy embertömegeket, esetleg országok teljes lakosságát helyezzék megfigyelés alá. Úgy vélte, hogy régebben az országok egymás ellen kémkedtek, de az utóbbi években hatalmas embertömegeket kezdtek megfigyelni a náluk lévő digitális eszközök segítségével. Ezt nem lehet az érintettek beleegyezése nélkül megtenni, de ha nem tudnak róla, nem is egyezhetnek bele - indokolt Rusbridger, aki arra kérte a törvényhozókat, védjék meg az újságírókat. Follorou, a 'Le Monde' újságírója a Külbiztonsági Főigazgatóság ('DGSE'), a francia kémelhárítás adatbázisára derített fényt - hírszerző hatóságéra, amelyiknek, mint mondta, az ország határain kívül kellene tevékenykedne ám amelyik minden külső kontroll és bárki tudta nélkül hatalmas mennyiségű adatot kezel, amelyet más ügynökségekkel is mindenféle felhatalmazás nélkül megoszt. Follorou álláspontja az, hogy az államhatalom fölött ellenőrzésre van szükség, és hogy Franciaország szuverenitási kérdést csinált abból, hogy nem akart más országok által szolgáltatott adatokra hagyatkozni. Applebaum hacker kifejtette, hogy az adatszerzés három módon zajlik: a 'PRISM' folytán, amelyiknek keretében cégekkel együttműködve, azok tudomásával és beleegyezésével az adott cég infrastruktúrájába építik be a megfigyelő eszközöket; az úgynevezett "upstream" adatgyűjtés révén, amikor a hírszerzés kívülről figyeli bizonyos felek között a kommunikációt - ilyen szerinte a brit 'Tempora'-rendszer is -; harmadrészt pedig az így meg nem figyelhető kommunikációból, eddig kevéssé feltárt módon informatikai behatolással szereznek adatokat. Applebaum ismertette, hogy az 'NSA'-nek módjában áll a Földön keletkező összes elektronikus jel elfogása és megfigyelése, még azoké is, amelyeket a világűrbe, műholdakra sugároznak, a 'Tempora' pedig a Nagy-Britanniába belépő vagy az országot elhagyó összes adatot figyeli. "Az 'NSA'-t nem kötik az európai törvények, és ezek nem is érdeklik" - jelentette ki. "A megfigyelő rendszerek célja az ellenőrzés, a kontroll. Ezek nem a totalitarizmus eszközei, ez maga a totalitarizmus" - tette hozzá. Azt is közölte: előfordulhat, hogy a megfigyelt személyt nemzetbiztonsági okokból likvidálják, gyanúsítás, vádemelés, eljárás és ítélet, vagyis jogszerű eljárás nélkül. Applebaum biztosra veszi, hogy az 'NSA' uniós számítógépekhez is hozzáférkőzött, de mint mondta, nem ez az igazán aggasztó, hanem az, ha például atomerőművek biztonsági berendezéseihez férnek hozzá, vagy adatbázisokhoz. Jobb bevándorlónak lenni Németországban, mint állampolgárnak az Egyesült Államokban - mondta.     2013. IX. 12.     Világos és kielégítő válaszokat vár az amerikai hatóságoktól Malmström, az Európai Unió (EU) belügyi biztosa, miután felmerült, hogy az amerikai 'Nemzetbiztonsági Ügynökség' ('NSA') a nemzetközi átutalásokat bonyolító úgynevezett "SWIFT"-hálózat adataihoz is hozzáférhetett - közölte 'Twitter'-csatornáján a svéd biztos. A "TFTP", vagyis a Terrorizmus Finanszírozását Követő Program még a Bush-kormány alatt indult a 2001 szeptember 11-i támadásokat követően, a terrorizmus elleni háború egyik eszközeként. Ennek keretében az amerikai kormány éveken át titokban hozzájutott a "SWIFT" adataihoz, majd amikor a program lelepleződött, Washington 2010-ben megállapodást kötött az EU-val, hogy törvényesen hozzáférhessen az adatokhoz. A megállapodás értelmében a washington-i kormányzat, jelesül a pénzügyminisztérium férhet hozzá az átutalási adatokhoz, de más szervezet, így a 'CIA' vagy az 'NSA' elvileg nem. A megállapodás szigorú előírásokat tartalmaz, hogy az adatok ne kerülhessenek illetéktelen kezekbe; biztonságos helyen, más adatoktól elkülönítve lehet csak tárolni őket, nem lehet más adatbázisokba beépíteni, de még lemásolni sem azokat. Az elmúlt napokban liberális és zöldpárti európai parlamenti képviselők az Egyesült Államok és az EU közötti adatátadásról szóló "TFTP'-megállapodás felfüggesztését sürgették. Malmström az ügyben levelet is küldött Washington-ba, amelyikben a "TFTP'-egyezmény keretein belül hivatalos konzultációt kezdeményez. (Forrás: MTII)     September 27, 2013     Some European politician leaders are renewing calls for a "euro cloud," in which consumer data could be shared within Europe but not outside the region; a system that would ensure data about European citizens stays on European servers. European Commission Vice President Kroes, who supervises the European Union's digital portfolio, has been encouraging the bloc's companies to tout their privacy creds. "Privacy is not only a fundamental right" - she said in Estonia this summer. "It can also be a competitive advantage." (Source: 'The Wall Street Journal").     2013. IX. 30.     A nők jogaiért kiálló pakisztáni Juszufzai, az amerikai kiszivárogtató Snowden, vagy a fehérorosz ellenzék kapja 2013. október 10-én az Európai Parlament (EP) Szaharov-díját. Snowden-t az Egyesült Európai Baloldal/Északi Zöld Baloldal frakciója jelölte a díjra, s a zöldek is őt támogatják. A Szaharov-díjat az EP minden évben olyasvalakinek ítéli oda, aki nagy áldozatok árán, letartóztatással, kínzással dacolva vagy akár életének kockáztatásával is kiáll az emberi jogok, az alapvető szabadságjogok, a kisebbségek jogai, a demokrácia, a jogállamiság, a gondolat, a lelkiismeret és a szólás szabadsága mellett. Az elismerést 1988 óta ítélik oda. A kitüntetéssel ötven ezer euró jár. (Forrás: MTI)

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Ázsia

India

September 25, 2013     The Permanent Mission of India at the United Nations (UN) and the embassy in Washington, DC were targets of such sophisticated bugs implanted by the U.S. 'National Security Agency' ('NSA') that entire computer hard disks might have been copied by the American agency. The U.N. Mission building in New York and the embassy premises, including its annex, in Washington were on a top-secret list of countries and missions — many of them European allies of the U.S. — chosen for intensive spying.  According to the 2010 'COMINT' (communication intelligence) document about 'Close Access SIGADs', the offices of Indian diplomats and high-ranking military officials stationed at these important posts were targets of four different kinds of electronic snooping devices: 'Lifesaver', which facilitates imaging of the hard drive of computers; 'Highlands', which makes digital collection from implants; 'Vagrant', which collects data of open computer screens; and 'Magnetic', which is a collection of digital signals. Though no Indian official was willing to talk on record specifically about the 'NSA' bugs mentioned in the top secret document, in private they admitted that it’s a violation of all norms and security. But the U.S. officials have already made it clear that they would not “apologise” to anyone for the bugging of foreign mission. (Source: "The Hindu"): http://tinyurl.com/pomys5f     September 27, 2013     India is planning to prohibit government officials from using U.S. email services, including 'Gmail' and "Yahoo'. (Source: "The Wall Street Journal")

Kína

2013. IX. 13. (péntek)     Ingerülten reagált a 'Huawei' kína-i távközlési vállalatóriás a hírekre, amelyek szerint állítólag szerepelt az amerikai Nemzetbiztonsági Ügynökség ('NSA') által megfigyeltek listáján.
     A hét elején a brazíl 'Globo' televízióban ismertettek olyan - a volt 'NSA'-alkalmazott Snowden által kiszivárogtatott - 2012. májusi dokumentumokat, amelyek szerint a megfigyelések kiterjedtek a 'Huawei'-re is. Az érintett vállalat törvénytelen cselekménynek minősítette az 'NSA' tevékenységét. A 'Huawei' tudja, hogy rendszerei és hálózatai rendszeres támadásnak vannak kitéve, csakúgy mint a legtöbb nagy multinacionális vállalatéi, amelyek vonzó célpontot jelentenek az ipari kémkedés számára - fogalmaztak közleményükben. A sencsen-i központú 'Huawei' a világ második legnagyobb, távközlési eszközöket gyártó cége.  2012-ben körülbelül harmincöt milliárd dolláros bevételt ért el. Korábban többször vádolták meg - különösen az Egyesült Államok-ban - azzal, hogy a kínai kormány titkos kémprogramjának eszköze, s "veszélyezteti az amerikai nemzetbiztonsági érdekeket". Vezetői ezt rendre cáfolni igyekeztek, de a gyanú miatt jelentősen szűkültek a cég piaci lehetőségei. (Forrás: MTI)

Dél-Amerika

Brazília    Brazil
Sep 2, 2013     A report by 'Globo TV', citing 2012 documents from 'NSA' leaker Snowden alleges that the U.S. intercepted Brazilian President Rousseff's emails and telephone calls, along with those of Mexican President Nieto, whose communications were being monitored even before he was elected as president in July, 2012. Brazilian Justice Minister Cardozo told the newspaper 'O Globo' that 'if the facts of the report are confirmed, they would be considered very serious and would constitute a clear violation of Brazil's sovereignty." "This is completely outside the standard of confidence expected of a strategic partnership, as the U.S. and Brazil have" - he added. It's not clear if the spying continues. (Source: 'AP"): http://tinyurl.com/ov9m9pw.     2013. IX. 3.     Az NSA megfigyelési ügyével kapcsolatban mind Brazíliában, mind Mexikóban behívták a Külügyminisztériumba az amerikai nagykövetet. Figueiredo, brazil külügyminiszter sajtóértekezletén azt mondta: megtanácskozzák más országokkal, hogy milyen közös intézkedéseket tudnának hozni ebben a súlyos helyzetben. "Kell lennie olyan nemzetközi szabályozásnak, amelyik megvédi minden ország kormányát és állampolgárait attól, hogy megfigyeljék, lehallgassák, kibernetikai támadást kövessenek el ellene" - jelentette ki. (Forrás: MTI)

September 3, 2013     Brazil's senate has formed an Investigative Parliamentary Commission to follow up on reports that the US National Security Agency ('NSA') spied on Brazilian President Rousseff.
    The members discussed the possibility of the state providing federal protection for Rio de Janeiro-based journalist  Greenwald and his partner, considering them to be key witnesses in the investigation. Washington has said the spy programme is designed to thwart terrorism, but Brazil said it suspects industrial espionage and has demanded an written official response from the US government. (Source: 'Yahoo'): http://tinyurl.com/lx8ww7k.

Sep 8, 2013     The U.S. government allegedly spied on Brazilian state-run oil company 'Petroleo Brasileiro SA', known as 'Petrobras', according to the web site of 'Globo', Brazil's biggest television network. The information again came from Greenwald, an American activist who has worked with fugitive former 'NSA' analyst Snowden. Any spying on 'Petrobras', which has discovered some of the world's biggest offshore oil reserves in recent years, is sure to raise hackles in Brazil, a country that has long been suspicious of foreign designs on its abundant natural resources. Brazil's so-called sub-salt polygon, where many of the new finds have been discovered, may contain as much as one hundred billion barrels of oil, according to Rio de Janeiro State University. One find alone, the giant 'Libra' field, has estimated reserves of up to twelve billion barrels of oil, or enough to supply all U.S. oil needs for nearly two years. (Source: 'Reuters'): http://tinyurl.com/q2qys8t.     08/09/2013     'NSA' documents show United States spied Brazilian oil giant. One week after revealing USA surveillance of the presidents of Brazil and Mexico, 'Fantastico' brings another exclusive: new disclosures contradict statements by the 'NSA' denying espionage for economic purposes. A top secret presentation dated May 2012 is used by the 'NSA' to train new agents step-by-step how to access and spy upon private computer networks – the internal networks of companies, governments, financial institutions – networks designed precisely to protect information. The name of 'Petrobras' – Brazil’s largest company – appears right at the beginning, under the title: 'Many targets use private networks'. E-mail and internet services provider 'Google’s infrastructure is also listed as a target, shown here as a victim. Other targets include French diplomats – with access to the private network of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of France – and the 'SWIFT' network, the cooperative that unites over ten thousand banks in two hundred twelve countries and provides communications that enable international financial transactions. All transfers of money between banks across national borders goes through 'SWIFT'. 'The networks in the presentation all belong to real companies. These are not made-up situations', says Pagliusi, who has a PhD in information security, has written books on the subject and analyzed the documents for 'Fantastico". The yearly profits of Petrobras are over two hundrey eighty billion reais – US$ one hundred twenty billion. More than the GDP of many countries. The details of each lot in an auction set for next month: for exploration of the Libra Field, in the Bay of Santos, part of the Pre-salt... Whether the spies had access to this information is one of the questions the Brazilian government will have to put to the United States. The 'NSA' presentation shows in detail how the data of a chosen target is rerouted through spy filters beginning at  the very source, until they reach the NSA’s supercomputers. In this document the 'NSA' names Latin America as a key target of the 'SILVERZEPHYR' program, which collects the contents of voice recordings, faxes, as well as metadata, which is the overall information being transmitted in the network. Another document obtained by 'Fantastico" shows who are the spies’ clients – who gets the information obtained: American diplomats, the intelligence agencies, and the White House. It proves that spying doesn’t have as its sole purpose the fight against terrorism. On this list of objectives are also diplomatic, political and economic information. The 'NSA' presentation contains documents prepared by the 'GCHQ' – the British Spy agency, from a country that appears as an ally of the United States in spying. The British agency shows how two spy programs operate. 'Flying Pig' and 'Hush Puppy' also monitor private networks which carry supposedly secure information. These networks are known as 'TLS/SSL'. On September 1, 2013 'Fantástico' showed exclusively how the President of Brazil is a direct target of espionage. On September 5, President Rousseff met American counterpart Obama at the 'G20' Summit in Russia, and she demanded explanations. "Besides what’s been published by the press, I want to know everything they have regarding Brazil. The word ‘everything’ is very comprehensive. It means all. Every bit. In English, ‘everything’.” – the President told a press conference on September 6. The NSA has sent a statement attributed to Clapper, director of National Intelligence, declaring that the agency collects information in order to give the United States and their allies early warning of international financial crises which could negatively impact the global economy and also to provide insight into other countries' economic policy or behavior which could affect global markets.The statement also stresses that the collected intelligence is not used 'to steal the trade secrets of foreign companies on behalf of – or give intelligence we collect to – US companies to enhance their international competitiveness or increase their bottom line.' The UK Foreign Office in London and the British Embassy in Brasilia declared they do not comment on intelligence-related issues. (Source: 'Fantástico'): http://tinyurl.com/nv2j2vc.     Sep 17, 2013     Brazil looks to break from US-centric Internet. President Rousseff ordered a series of measures aimed at greater Brazilian online independence and security following revelations that the U.S. 'National Security Agency' ('NSA')  intercepted her communications, hacked into the state-owned 'Petrobras' oil company's network and spied on Brazilians who entrusted their personal data to U.S. tech companies such as 'Facebook' and 'Google'. While Brazil isn't proposing to bar its citizens from U.S.-based Web services, it wants their data to be stored locally as the nation assumes greater control over Brazilians' Internet use to protect them from 'NSA' snooping. Brazil is now pushing more aggressively than any other nation to end U.S. commercial hegemony on the Internet. More than eighty percent of online search, for example, is controlled by U.S.-based companies. Brazilians rank No. three on 'Facebook' and No. two on 'Twitter' and 'YouTube'. Brasil's postal service plans by next year to create an encrypted email service that could serve as an alternative to 'Gmail' and 'Yahoo'. Rousseff is urging Brazil's Congress to compel 'Facebook', 'Google' and all companies to store data generated by Brazilians on servers physically located inside Brazil in order to shield it from the 'NSA'. More communications integrity protection is expected when 'Telebras', the state-run telecom company, works with partners to oversee the launch in 2016 of Brazil's first communications satellite, for military and public Internet traffic. Brazil's military currently relies on a satellite run by 'Embratel', which Mexican billionaire Slim controls. Rousseff's office cited a "common understanding" between Brazil and the European Union on data privacy, and said "negotiations are underway in South America for the deployment of land connections between all nations." (Source: 'AP'): http://tinyurl.com/onqh4dd.     18 Sep 2013     Brazilian hackers confuse Nasa with 'NSA' in revenge attack.  A Nasa spokesman confirmed that a Brazilian hacker group last week posted a political message on a number of Nasa websites. They hacked Nasa's web page and left the message: 'Stop spying on us" - it said. The attack followed recent disclosures that the 'NSA' spied on Brazilian President Rousseff's email communications and on the state-run energy giant 'Petrobras'.  Ms Rousseff postponed a state visit to Washington in protest over allegations of US cyberspying on her country. She announced the decision after discussing the espionage row with US President Obama on September 16 in a telephone call. (Source: "The Telegraph")     Sep 24, 2013     At United Nations (UN), Brazil's Rousseff blasts U.S. spying as 'meddling'. Using the opening speech at the U.N. General Assembly Brazilian President Rousseff have announced that Brazil would adopt legislation and technology to protect it from illegal interception of communications. Rousseff last week called off a high-profile state visit to the United States scheduled for October over reports that the U.S. 'National Security Agency' had been spying on Brazil and Rousseff's email. Her state visit was conceived to highlight cooperation between the two biggest economies in the Americas and Brazil's emergence over the past decade as a regional power. (Source: 'Reuters'): http://tinyurl.com/nu6nrqh     September 27, 2013     'NSA' internet spying sparks race to create offshore havens for data privacy. Brazil wants its own servers, fast-tracking a vote on a law that could require data about Brazilians to be stored on servers in Brazil. (Source: "The Wall Street Journal")     Sep 28, 2013     Scahill, a contributor to 'The Nation' magazine and the 'New York Times' best-selling author of 'Dirty Wars' said he will be working with Greenwald, the Rio-based journalist who has written stories about U.S. surveillance programs based on documents leaked by Snowden. 'Dirty Wars' the film, directed by Rowley, traces Scahill's investigations into the Joint Special Operations Command. The movie follows Scahill as he hopscotches around the globe, from Afghanistan to Yemen to Somalia, talking to the families of people killed in the U.S. strikes. (Source: 'AP'): http://tinyurl.com/n7hgwh8

Észak-Amerika

Egyesült Államok   United States

2013. IX. 2.     Az 'al-Kaida' nemzetközi terrorszervezet és további, az Egyesült Államok ellenségének számító szélsőséges csoportok tagjai próbáltak beszivárogni az amerikai titkosszolgálatok soraiba
    Az amerikai Központi Hírszerző Ügynökség ('CIA') adatai alapján azon jelentkezők közül, akik állás betöltésére jelentkeznek a 'CIA'-nál, és valamilyen okból gyanúsnak tűnnek, végül is minden ötödik "jelentős összeköttetésekkel rendelkezik terrorista csoportokkal vagy ellenséges titkosszolgálatokkal" - közölte a "The Washington Post". A vonatkozó dokumentumot Snowden tette elérhetővé az amerikai napilap számára. (Forrás: MTI)

September 5, 2013     'N.S.A' able to foil basic safeguards of privacy on Web
    The documents make clear that the 'N.S.A'. considers its ability to decrypt information a vital capability, one in which it competes with China, Russia and other intelligence powers. “In the future, superpowers will be made or broken based on the strength of their cryptanalytic programs,” a 2007 document said. “It is the price of admission for the U.S. to maintain unrestricted access to and use of cyberspace.” The full extent of the 'N.S.A.’s decoding capabilities is known only to a limited group of top analysts from the so-called 'Five Eyes': the 'N.S.A.' and its counterparts in Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Only they are cleared for the 'Bullrun' program, the successor to one called 'Manassas' — both names of an American Civil War battle. A parallel 'GCHQ' counterencryption program is called 'Edgehill'... (Source: 'The New York Times'): http://tinyurl.com/mo9gw5c

Sep 6, 2013     Attorneys suing 'Google' say the firm violates privacy and takes personal property by electronically scanning the contents of people's "Gmail' accounts and then targeting ads to them.
    "This company reads, on a daily basis, every email that's submitted, and when I say read, I mean looking at every word to determine meaning," said Texas attorney  Rommel, who is co-counsel suing 'Google'. But in a federal court hearing on September 3 in San Jose, 'Google' argued that the case should be dismissed, and that 'all users of email must necessarily expect that their emails will be subject to automated processing.' (Source: 'AP'): http://tinyurl.com/lcafdsl

September 10, 2013     The National Security Agency's searches of a database containing the phone records of nearly all Americans violated privacy protections for three years by failing to meet a court-ordered standard - according to court documents released.
    Since the breadth of the phone-records collection came to light through leaks by Snowden, U.S. officials have said that for all queries of the database, the 'NSA' must show a "reasonable articulable suspicion' that the phone number being targeted is associated with a terrorist organization. Between 2006 and 2009, however, of the seventeen thousand eight hundred and thirty-five phone numbers checked against phone records, only one thousand nine hundred thirty-five were based on that reasonable-suspicion standard, intelligence officials said. (Source: 'The Wall Street Journal'): http://tinyurl.com/nokqvvt.

Sep. 10, 2013     Poll: public doubts rise on surveillance, privacy
    Following disclosures about the National Security Agency's massive surveillance programs, a majority of Americans believe the U.S. government is doing a poor job of protecting privacy rights,according to a new poll by the "Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research". Close to sixty percent of Americans oppose the NSA's collection of data on telephone and Internet usage. A similar majority opposes the legal process supervised by a secret federal court that oversees the government's classified surveillance. A majority of Americans appear doubtful. Some fifty-six percent oppose the NSA's collection of telephone records for future investigations even though they do not include actual conversations. And fifty-four percent oppose the government's collection and retention of Internet metadata for future investigations that avoids actual email contents; only thirty-four percent favor such efforts. Even stronger majorities oppose unauthorized government surveillance of phone calls and Internet mail traffic within the U.S. As many as seventy-one percent do not want officials eavesdropping on U.S. phone calls without court warrants; sixty-two percent oppose collection of the contents of Americans' emails without warrants. The growing anxiety about the erosion of civil liberties coincides with deepening pessimism about the war on terrorist organizations. In a poll conducted two years ago by the "AP-NORC Center", fifty-three percent of Americans felt the U.S. was likely to win the war in terrorism over the coming decade or that it had already done so. Now, just forty-four percent of Americans expect that victory by 2023. The "AP-NORC Center" survey was conducted Aug. 12-29, 2013 by "NORC" at the University of Chicago. (Source: 'My Way'): http://tinyurl.com/o5e25fn.    

September 11, 2013    The latest document leaked by former National Security Agency contractor Snowden says the U.S. regularly hands over to Israel intercepted communications that have not first been reviewed by U.S. analysts and that probably includes sensitive information about Americans.
     The 2009 document, a memorandum of understanding between the 'NSA' and its Israeli counterpart, says the U.S. government regularly hands over intercepted communications that have not first been reviewed by U.S. analysts and therefore may contain phone calls and emails of American citizens. The agreement allows for the possibility that intercepts given to Israel might include the communications of U.S. government officials, in which case Israel is supposed to destroy them immediately. Other data on U.S. citizens who aren't in the government, however, can be kept by Israel for up to a year, according to the document, first published by Britain's "Guardian" newspaper. Providing Israel unfiltered electronic intelligence feeds raises questions about why American officials would trust Israel to respect the privacy of U.S. citizens. The practice also raises the specter of Israel using U.S. intelligence to carry out operations of which the U.S. disapproves. The Obama administration has condemned, for example, the assassinations of several Iranian nuclear scientists that many analysts believe Israel had a hand in. "One of the biggest concerns in all intelligence-sharing relationships is that the partner would use the data to take action that would result in killing somebody or doing something outside the scope of what our government might consider appropriate," - said a former senior 'NSA' official. The sharing of raw intercepts with Israel is particularly notable because U.S. officials say Israel aggressively seeks to spy on the U.S. government, unlike Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, allies who are part of a long-standing agreement to share signals intelligence with the United States. Pollard, a former U.S. naval intelligence analyst, is serving a life sentence in prison after being caught spying for Israel in the 1980s. Secret U.S. intelligence budget documents revealed last month by Snowden list Israel as one of the most aggressive countries seeking to spy on the U.S., alongside China, Russia, Iran and Cuba. (Source: "Los Angeles Times"): http://tinyurl.com/neouah2

11 September 2013     'NSA' and Israeli intelligence: memorandum of understanding – full document
    Top-secret document shows how intelligence being shared with Israel would not be filtered in advance by NSA analysts to remove US communications. (Source: "The Guardian"): http://tinyurl.com/nzgm89o.

September 13, 2013     The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court will release more opinions because of Snowden
    In an opinion from the  Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court ("FISC') itself, Judge Saylor told the White House to declassify all the legal opinions relating to Section 215 of the Patriot Act written after May 2011 that aren't already the subject of Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA") litigation. The court ruled that the White House must identify the opinions in question by Oct. 4. "The unauthorized disclosure of in June 2013 of a Section 215 order, and government statements in response to that disclosure, have engendered considerable public interest and debate about Section 215" - wrote Saylor. "Publication of FISC opinions relating to this opinion would contribute to an informed debate." The ruling comes in response to a petition by the American Civil Liberties Union seeking greater government transparency. (Source: "The Washington Post"): http://tinyurl.com/kog3mzh.

13 September 2013     Schmidt, the executive chairman of 'Google', reiterated the tech industry's call for greater transparency from the US government over surveillance, but declined to 'pass judgment' on American spying operations.
    'There's been spying for years, there's been surveillance for years, and so forth, I'm not going to pass judgement on that, it's the nature of our society' - he said. 'The real danger [from] the publicity about all of this is that other countries will begin to put very serious encryption – we use the term 'balkanization' in general – to essentially split the internet and that the internet's going to be much more country specific' - Schmidt said. 'That would be a very bad thing, it would really break the way the internet works, and I think that's what I worry about'. (Source: "The Guardian"): http://tinyurl.com/oxz6zpt.     September 15, 2013     The United States' 'NSA' intelligence agency is interested in international payments processed by companies including 'Visa', widely monitors international payments, banking and credit card transactions - "Spiegel" has learned. The 'NSA' has even set up its own financial database to track money flows through a 'tailored access operations' division, conducted by spying branch called  'Follow the Money' (FTM). The collected information then flows into the NSA's own financial databank, called 'Tracfin', which in 2011 possessed one hundred eighyty million records; eighty-four percent of the data is from credit card transactions. 'NSA' analysts' aim was to gain access to transactions by 'VISA' customers in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The NSA's 'Tracfin' data bank also contained data from the Brussels-based "Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication' (SWIFT), a network used by thousands of banks to send transaction information securely. One of the ways the agency accessed the data included reading 'SWIFT printer traffic from numerous banks' - the documents show. (Source: "Der Spiegel"): http://tinyurl.com/py76wf2.     September 16, 2013     Former 'NSA' and 'CIA' director Hayden advocated a move towards a Chinese-style world wide web where users are forced to identify themselves before posting online content. In Communist China users are mandated to submit to real name registration before they can use services like 'Weibo', the Chinese version of 'Twitter'. Prominent micro-bloggers who attracted millions of followers as a result of criticizing the Chinese government are now being arrested and forced to 'confess' their crimes as part of a return to a 'Mao-era style of justice'. While defending mass 'NSA' spying on the American public via the recently revealed 'PRISM' program, Hayden also claimed that 'Gmail is the preferred Internet service provider of terror'ists worldwide'. Last month, Hayden compared hackers, cyberactivists and transparency groups to 'Al-Qaeda' terrorists, labeling them, 'nihilists, anarchists, activists', etc, etc. (Source: Infowar.com'): http://tinyurl.com/nu9oldx.     September 24, 2013     These are the skills you need to get a $173,000 job as the NSA’s privacy officer. Do you have a passion for civil liberties and protecting the privacy of ordinary citizens? Are you “well known and highly regarded by US privacy and civil liberties protection professionals?” Can you be both righteous and morally flexible? Then the American 'National Security Agency' has just the job for you. The signal intelligence agency best known for logging every phone call in America, reading the world’s emails, and weakening essential cryptographic standards is looking for a Civil Liberties & Privacy Officer. The job is a “completely new role… (Source: 'Quartz': http://tinyurl.com/nhmq7j6     2013. IX. 26.     Óriási szerverfarmot létesített az 'NSA'. Az amerikai Nemzetbiztonsági Ügynökség ('NSA') óriási, másfél milliárd dolláros költséggel épült szerverfarmot hozott létre az amerikai Utah államban - írta világhálós honlapján a 'The Salt Lake Tribune'. A lap értesülései szerint az új szervertelep nemcsak biztonsági adattárolásra szolgál, hanem lehetővé teszi az amerikai hírszerzés számára az adatokhoz történő valós idejű hozzáférést is más helyszínekről. (Forrás: MTI)     September 27, 2013     'NSA' internet spying sparks race to create offshore havens for data privacy. The "Information Technology and Innovation Foundation" estimates that fallout from revelations about 'NSA' activities could cost Silicon Valley up to $35 billion in annual revenue, much of it from lost overseas business. A survey conducted this summer by the "Cloud Security Alliance", an industry group, found that 56% of non-U.S. members said security concerns made it less likely that they would use U.S.-based cloud services. Ten percent said they had canceled a contract. (Source: 'The Wall Street Journal"): http://tinyurl.com/lsc2x3m.     September 28, 2013     'N.S.A.' gathers data on social connections of U.S. citizens. Since 2010, the 'National Security Agency' has been exploiting its huge collections of data to create sophisticated graphs of some Americans’ social connections that can identify their associates, their locations at certain times, their traveling companions and other personal information, according to newly disclosed documents and interviews with officials. The 'N.S.A.' documents show that one of the main tools used for chaining phone numbers and e-mail addresses has the code name 'Mainway'. It is a repository into which vast amounts of data flow daily from the agency’s fiber-optic cables, corporate partners and foreign computer networks that have been hacked. The documents show that significant  amounts of information from the United States go into 'Mainway'. An internal 'N.S.A.' bulletin, for example, noted that in 2011 'Mainway' was taking in seven hundred  million phone records per day. In August 2011, it began receiving an additional 1.1 billion cellphone records daily from an unnamed American service provider under Section 702 of the 2008 FISA Amendments Act, which allows for the collection of the data of Americans if at least one end of the communication is believed to be foreign. The overall volume of metadata collected by the 'N.S.A.' is reflected in the agency’s secret 2013 budget request to Congress. The budget document, disclosed by Snowden, shows that the agency is pouring money and manpower into creating a metadata repository capable of taking in twenty billion 'record events' daily and making them available to 'N.S.A.' analysts within sixty minutes. If the 'N.S.A.' does not immediately use the phone and e-mail logging data of an American, it can be stored for later use, at least under certain circumstances, according to several documents. One 2011 memo, for example, said that after a court ruling narrowed the scope of the agency’s collection, the data in question was 'being buffered for possible ingest' later. A year earlier, an internal briefing paper from the 'N.S.A.' Office of Legal Counsel showed that the agency was allowed to collect and retain raw traffic, which includes both metadata and content, about “U.S. persons” for up to five years online and for an additional ten years offline for 'historical searches.' (Source: "The New York Times"): http://tinyurl.com/q4y2lv3     

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