European Lawmakers Demand Answers on Phone Key Theft
Source: The Intercept
European officials are demanding answers and investigations into a joint U.S. and U.K. hack of the worlds largest manufacturer of mobile SIM cards, following a report published by The Intercept Thursday.
The report, based on leaked documents provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, revealed the U.S. spy agency and its British counterpart Government Communications Headquarters, GCHQ, hacked the Franco-Dutch digital security giant Gemalto in a sophisticated heist of encrypted cell-phone keys.
The European Parliaments chief negotiator on the European Unions data protection law, Jan Philipp Albrecht, said the hack was obviously based on some illegal activities.
Member states like the U.K. are frankly not respecting the [law of the] Netherlands and partner states, Albrecht told the Wall Street Journal.
Sophie in t Veld, an EU parliamentarian with D66, the Netherlands largest opposition party, added, Year after year we have heard about cowboy practices of secret services, but governments did nothing and kept quiet [
] In fact, those very same governments push for ever-more surveillance capabilities, while it remains unclear how effective these practices are.
If the average IT whizzkid breaks into a company system, hell end up behind bars, In t Veld added in a tweet Friday
Read more: https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/02/20/gemalto-heist-shocks-europe/
If the average IT whizzkid breaks into a company system, hell end up behind bars, In t Veld added in a tweet Friday
Downwinder
(12,869 posts)NSA should be providing security, not destroying it.
Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)Booz allen who run the NSA is owned by the Carlyle group
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So hacked sim cards would never give them an advantage on gaming the system.
newfie11
(8,159 posts)The NSA, CIA is out of control.
I'm thinking there is no real oversight on both.
DeSwiss
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The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites.
The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal.
We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me.
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Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)Never mind the relationships between friendly countries. First the lawsuits and then what?
Because it won't end there and you know that
Never mind the retooling and reprogramming at the factory and the IT input that will be needed to fix this which will be demanded by all businesses and industries for their private business ............ well.................that adds up.
tHE NSA ..........fucks things up once again......
So much for their game theory experts and mega quantum computers to figure shit out.
With all that power they have to see what the world is really saying, and the solutions that are there to help save this living planet and help humanity....................They
Instead and their succubus masters use it for power and control.................. like a silver back gorilla who lords over his harem in the jungle of primitive primate behavior
Bring on Colossus