Britain's GCHQ hacked Belgium's telco Belgacom

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Post by filipmaertens » Fri, Sep 20, 2013, 9:25 AM UTC

http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/photo-gallery-operaton-socialist-fotostrecke-101663.html

Re: Britain's GCHQ hacked Belgium's telco Belgacom

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Post by sasvari » Fri, Sep 20, 2013, 9:41 AM UTC

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6416660

Re: Britain's GCHQ hacked Belgium's telco Belgacom

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Post by filipmaertens » Fri, Sep 20, 2013, 9:56 AM UTC

Through excitement this was erroneously posted and contains the same article of Der Spiegel as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6416660

Re: Britain's GCHQ hacked Belgium's telco Belgacom

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Post by bsullivan01 » Fri, Sep 20, 2013, 10:55 AM UTC

Safe to say that they hacked every {country}com they could. That's not personal, just business.

Re: Britain's GCHQ hacked Belgium's telco Belgacom

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Post by unionpivo » Fri, Sep 20, 2013, 11:08 AM UTC

bsullivan01 wrote: post #4

Safe to say that they hacked every {country}com they could. That's not personal, just business.

To GCHQ it may be business as usual, but if I were telco owner/admin/user I would be pissed.

After all virus writers/crackers/spammers are just business too.

Just because its government that hacks you doesn't make it any better, I believe it makes it worse.

Re: Britain's GCHQ hacked Belgium's telco Belgacom

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Post by anthonyb » Fri, Sep 20, 2013, 12:16 PM UTC

sasvari wrote: post #2

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6416660

Which apparently has been flagged off of the front page.

Re: Britain's GCHQ hacked Belgium's telco Belgacom

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Post by eliot_sykes » Fri, Sep 20, 2013, 12:20 PM UTC

anthonyb wrote: post #6

sasvari wrote: post #2

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6416660

Which apparently has been flagged off of the front page.

Any idea why it'd be flagged?

Re: Britain's GCHQ hacked Belgium's telco Belgacom

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Post by rwmj » Fri, Sep 20, 2013, 12:27 PM UTC

Interestingly, this has not been reported in the UK.

Re: Britain's GCHQ hacked Belgium's telco Belgacom

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Post by eli » Fri, Sep 20, 2013, 12:43 PM UTC

eliot_sykes wrote: post #7

anthonyb wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which apparently has been flagged off of the front page.

Any idea why it'd be flagged?

People perhaps fatigued by constant spying mini-revelations

Re: Britain's GCHQ hacked Belgium's telco Belgacom

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Post by da_n » Fri, Sep 20, 2013, 12:48 PM UTC

rwmj wrote: post #8

Interestingly, this has not been reported in the UK.

There is a gag order on the media against any reporting of GCHQ. Ministry of Truth is in full effect in the UK right now.