Re:Insecure by design: protocols for encrypted phone calls
by adwf on Thursday February 25, 2016 @07:31PM
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Yeah, but when you see the outrage that Merkel displayed over finding out her phone had been tapped by the NSA; do you seriously believe that the BND haven't tried the exact same thing on Obama or Cameron when they're in Germany?
My point is that a lot of the outrage is only because the UK and US are the only ones we know of.
Re:Insecure by design: protocols for encrypted phone calls
by nickik on Friday February 26, 2016 @10:59AM
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I am talking about broad mass surveillance not individual acts of espionage.
Re:Insecure by design: protocols for encrypted phone calls
by dogma1138 on Friday February 26, 2016 @02:39PM
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Yes and Germany still spied on at least 2 us Secretaries of State and Turkey.
Countries spy for most of them it would irresponsible not to do so because riding on the high horse doesn't have much rewards on its own.
Germany is somewhat different because of its history. We know quite a bit about what the BND does, in terms of monitoring extremist groups. We have pirates in pretty important positions and the CCC is regularly working with government in oversight commissions.
It is pretty hard to hide all that you are doing, both in terms of physical infrastructure and in terms of financials. Now it may be that the BND is extremely clever and hiding all of this from basically everybody. However given the competence displayed by the BND on various action that they have taken, it is a really hard sell that they are operating a infrastructure close to the US or UK one.