NSA Spied on European Politicians Through Danish Telecommunications Hub (therecord.media) 40
Denmark's foreign secret service allowed the US National Security Agency to tap into a crucial internet and telecommunications hub in Denmark and spy on the communications of European politicians, a joint investigation by some of Europe's biggest news agencies revealed on Sunday. From a report: The covert spying operation, called Operation Dunhammer, took place between 2012 and 2014, based on a secret partnership signed by the two agencies. The secret pact, signed between the NSA and the Danish Defense Intelligence Service (Danish: Forsvarets Efterretningstjeneste, FE) allowed US spies to deploy a data interception system named XKeyscore on the network of
Sandagergardan, an important internet and communications hub in the city of Dragor, near Copenhagen, where several key submarine cables connected Denmark (and continental Europe) to the Scandinavian peninsula.
The NSA allegedly used XKeyscore to mass-sniff internet and mobile traffic and intercept communications such as emails, phone calls, SMS texts, and chat messages sent to the phone numbers and email addresses of European politicians. The covert operation abruptly stopped in 2014 after Danish government officials learned of the NSA-FE collaboration following the Snowden leaks. Danish officials put a stop to the operation after they learned that the NSA had also spied on Danish government members.
The NSA allegedly used XKeyscore to mass-sniff internet and mobile traffic and intercept communications such as emails, phone calls, SMS texts, and chat messages sent to the phone numbers and email addresses of European politicians. The covert operation abruptly stopped in 2014 after Danish government officials learned of the NSA-FE collaboration following the Snowden leaks. Danish officials put a stop to the operation after they learned that the NSA had also spied on Danish government members.
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"a bull was observed defecating in a private pasture."
There was a farmer who had a brown cow and a white cow and he wanted to get them bred, so borrowed his neighbor's bull and turned it loose in the pasture. He told his son to watch and come in and tell him when the bull was finished.
"Yeah daddy, yeah daddy," said the little boy.
After a while the boy came into the living where his father was talking with some friends. "Say, Pop," said the boy. "Yes," replied his father.
"The bull just fucked the brown cow.
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aw.
somebody is sad
Sleep aid. (Score:2)
Spied and learned the same thing we did. Politicians are boring.
Microsoft data centers (Score:2)
Microsoft created new data centers in Denmark in 2020. In stupid locations near data hubs. But expensive location and they said they will need some used equipment. Read NSA equipment.
So it continues in a new context.
Denmark Has a History of This Behaviour (Score:2, Flamebait)
Re: Denmark Has a History of This Behaviour (Score:3)
If you want to know what caused this behaviour, google the second Schleswig war. Otto von Bismarck broke us in a way, from which we never really recovered.
On the other hand, we didnâ(TM)t fork over Greenland when tin-pot dictator wannabe Trump wanted it.
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I'm glad you didn't fork over Greenland. But it would have been comical, quite like the dog that catches the car he's been chasing and then asks for driving lessons.
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They've been cooperating with Fiv
Everybody spies on everybody (Score:3, Funny)
This story sounds vaguely familiar (Score:1)
Wasn't there some big story about CIA/NSA spying a while back? What ever became of that?
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No, it was another one on European leaders. It happens so often, the stories blend together.
Pot meet kettle (Score:4, Interesting)
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Spying is good, it prevents being surprised and overreacting.
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"I love the fabricated outrage from Germany over this - "How could you do this?!?""
They still remember a song by a local comic, Otto, who sang 'Dänen lügen nicht' (Danes don't lie)
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I love the fabricated outrage from Germany over this - "How could you do this?!?". Don't be fooled, it is indeed fabricated. Everyone is spying on everyone, and everyone knows it. But lets keep the charade going and hope that everyone has forgotten that Germany was caught red handed spying on Danish leaders as late as 2015 - https://www.thelocal.dk/201511... [thelocal.dk]
Not to mention Merkel trying to get into the Five Eyes Club back in 2013 [ft.com].:
Some European officials believe Ms Merkel’s call for a new intelligence-sharing arrangement with the US is aimed at creating for Berlin a relationship similar to “five eyes” for Germany.
Ban Huawei (Score:5, Insightful)
We need equipment that we can exploit.
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Vice versa (Score:5, Interesting)
Re: Vice versa (Score:1)
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It has been widely reported the Dutch services (AIVD/MIVD) had cracked a (security) camera in the offices of the Russian intelligence a few blocks from the Kremlin.
This knowledge was blown up when a US official thought it wise to publicly talk about it (2017).
https://nos.nl/nieuwsuur/artik... [nos.nl]
Then there was the issue with the Russian operatives being caught red-handed with their equipment trying to penetrate the International Court in the Hag
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It has been widely reported the Dutch services (AIVD/MIVD) had cracked a (security) camera in the offices of the Russian intelligence a few blocks from the Kremlin.
This knowledge was blown up when a US official thought it wise to publicly talk about it (2017).
Or maybe we wanted to get the Russians to replace their security equipment to give us an opportunity to bug the new equipment.
Re: Vice versa (Score:1)
Any sanctions on the NSA and Denmark? see Huawei (Score:4, Insightful)
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Interesting angle, but does it rise to the level of insight?
The insight I was looking for in the discussion of the story was why the "investigation" was time-limited in that particular way. Gee, it's not like someone would have leaked something specifically to damage the reputation of one particular politician. Who could imagine such a thing?
Look to your left! (Score:2)
Oh wait, wake up. Come on, wakie wakie.
I know we've seen this several times before but surely this one will be different. Are you really going to tell me this has become routine SNAFU, Situation Normal All Fucked Up. Cuz this is not Situation Normal, this is time for those wakey wakey folks to wakey wakey and pay some fucking attention.
We have proof they've been spying on us since the
Those Chinese and Russian spies again!!1! (Score:1)
How do we blame them for this information getting into the open?
Good for you (Score:1)
Who will blow up the 4th and 5th statue of Obama? (Score:1)
I can use a blowtorch to take down one statue of Obama.
I can maybe use an SUV to crush another, made of wood of plaster.
Definitely TNT to blow up a third, where there's no people nearby.
Who can pledge to destroy the 4th and 5th?
This was already known (Score:2)
They also spied on Denmark (Score:2)