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Britain's GCHQ hacked Belgium's telco Belgacom

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

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Post by da_n »

tombrossman wrote: post #13
da_n wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Not disputing that there is some 'voluntary' suppression of facts by the media but a quick search of BBC news shows 5 stories in the last 10 days. http://www.bbc.co.uk/search/news/?q=GCHQ

Guess I should have been more specific, it is an official D-Notice by the MOD relating to Tempura:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/17/defence-d-bbc-m...

http://order-order.com/2013/06/08/d-notice-june-7-2013/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempora

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

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Post by pyre »

TheLegace wrote: post #30
pyre wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Care to link to that?

In his final report to Parliament, commissioner Robert Decary says some of the spying at Communications Security Establishment Canada may have affected Canadians in the past year. However, thanks to poor record-keeping, Mr. Decary – a retired judge who has been the agency’s independent watchdog since 2010 – said he can’t be sure.[1] CSEC is forbidden from intentionally collecting or analyzing information from Canadia…

Thanks for following up! I also caught your submission of this that made the front page.
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