NSA Cracked Into Encrypted UN Video Conferences 427
McGruber writes "According to documents seen by Germany's Der Spiegel, the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) successfully cracked the encryption code protecting the United Nations' internal videoconferencing system. NSA first breached the UN system in the summer of 2012 and, within three weeks of initially gaining access to the UN system, the NSA had increased the number of such decrypted communications from 12 to 458. On one occasion, according to the report, while the American NSA were attempting to break into UN communications, they discovered the Chinese were attempting to crack the encryption code as well."
Re:The dilema ... (Score:3, Informative)
Re:The dilema ... (Score:5, Informative)
Spying is an act of WAR.
Spying is almost never considered an act of war. Although it has at times lead to war, for instance the Ems Dispatch [wikipedia.org] and the Zimmermann Telegram [wikipedia.org].
Re:War on Information imminent? (Score:5, Informative)
Well, the US has already said that military action could be an appropriate response to state hacking/cyberwarfare.
Re:Leaked? (Score:4, Informative)
Snowden was right in suspecting foul play as The Independent was not among the original papers he informed.
Re:LOL, a German bragging about social protests (Score:2, Informative)
Past vs. present. You dig?
Seriously: 'The Germans' are out, the Turks are out, the french, the British, the Spanish, the Dutch, the Japanese... All those nations with a history (sic)... oh, never mind.
It's sat, btw.
Re:Another source/translation of Der Speigel? (Score:2, Informative)
so can someone provide something directly from that,
That would be here [spiegel.de], translated here [google.com].
Unless I'm not following the Translationese though, I can't see any mention of the Chinese in the network.
Re:You don't know shit. (Score:5, Informative)
You're still suffering under the delusion that the U.S. are the "good guys"? lol.
In the same period of time, the United States, officially a secular nation but predominantly Christian, attacked ....... Afghanistan (2001 to present), Haiti (2010), etc. etc. etc. etc.
So, who is the danger to world peace?"
Errr...the US retaliated against (not attacked) Afghanistan in 2001, due the the fact that the Taliban appeared to be housing/helping the group that attacked and killed a few thousand civilians in the US.
Similarly, the US didn't attack Haiti in 2010. They sent the military in the help in the aid efforts after the earthquake struck just west of Port-au-Prince.
Why didn't you add to your list that the US attacked Antarctica in 2003, when they built the current Amundsen-Scott research base? That would have made about as much sense as some of your listings....
Re: Yo Dawg we heard the chinese (Score:5, Informative)
I know this is feeding the troll, but.
The united states DOES do those things. Just not within their own boarders.
They are doing it now in Iraq and Afghanistan, they did it all the time in South America by funding and arming terrorist groups there.
Re:The dilema ... (Score:5, Informative)
What if the UN kicks the US out of the UN?
UN loses military and funding.
What?
Jordan, Bangladesh, even ZAMBIA contribute more to UN military operations than the USA.
Currently there are an embarrassing THIRTY US military personnel on UN deployments. Seriously.
National contributions to UN operations [un.org]
Re:LOL, a German bragging about social protests (Score:5, Informative)
Read at least a little history. The SDP and German Communist party fought valiantly against Hitler, right up until the enabling acts were forced through parliament (and that only succeeded because the Communists were evicted before the vote). The German left fought street battles against the brown shirts trying to prevent their rise to power.
The Nazis were way more committed to what they were doing than the US Government is. If the dissenters in the US (I'm looking at you, Occupy) showed a fraction of the resolve that the Weimar left showed, we'd have cleaned house by now.
Even after Hitler came to power, leaders in the one place there was still some free speech -- the independent churches -- continued to voice and rally dissent. German intellectuals fled the country and loudly protested the Hitler regime from around the world.
The first concentration camps were set up to detain Nazi political opponents, they were only turned to the purpose of ethnic cleansing in 1938.
You frankly don't know what you're talking about.
Re:The dilema ... (Score:5, Informative)
Well after some searching I found this for the year 2009:
http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=ST/ADM/SER.B/755 [un.org]
In one year the United States contributed $598,292,101 to a UN budget of $2,498,618,698 which comes to 22% of the entire budget.
On the other hand, some sources like here [heritage.org] explain that the funding is actually pretty complicated, as various departments of the federal government all contribute individually to various departments of the UN, up to as much as "$5.327 billion in 2005".
I'm not sure what the actual true percentage of UN funding is that comes from the US, but the fact remains that they aren't going to do anything substantial regardless of anything the US does.
Re:You don't know shit. (Score:4, Informative)
Don't forget the "attack" on Yugoslavia to protect muslim bosniaks from christian serbs and croats. Our sworn enemies always seem to gloss over that one when tallying up our sins.