“Somali providers are not on GCHQ’s list of interest,” the document noted, according to the Intercept. That allows them to ungarble calls, texts or emails intercepted out of the air.Īt one point in June 2010, Britain’s Government Communications Headquarters, or GCHQ, as its signals intelligence agency is known, intercepted nearly 300,000 keys for mobile phone users in Somalia, The Intercept reported. Once inside, the British spies stole encryption keys that allow them to decode the data that passes between mobile phones and cell towers. often accuses Chinese government hackers of targeting Western companies - stealing credentials that got the hackers into the company’s networks.
The Intercept reported that British government hackers targeted Gemalto engineers around the world much as the U.S. Still, the methods in this case may prove controversial, as did earlier Snowden revelations that the NSA was hacking transmissions among Google’s data centres.
The NSA, like the CIA, breaks the espionage and hacking laws of other countries to get information that helps American interests. adversaries who communicate on the same networks as everyone else. needs to be able to eavesdrop on terrorists and U.S. In the past, former agency officials have defended using extra-legal techniques to further surveillance capabilities, saying the U.S. The NSA did not immediately respond to a request for comment. “Their SIM cards would be used by most of the major telecom operators,” said Linley Gwennap, principal analyst at the Linley Group, a Silicon Valley tech research firm. In addition to SIM cards, Gemalto is a leading maker of encryption systems for other business and industrial uses, including electronic payment processing and “smart” key cards that businesses and government agencies use to restrict access to computers or other sensitive facilities. Experts called it a major compromise of mobile phone security.Ī spokeswoman for Sprint Nextel said Thursday that her company had no comment on the report, while a spokeswoman for T-Mobile said her company was referring reporters to Gemalto and declined further comment. The Intercept offered no evidence of any eavesdropping against American customers of those providers, and company officials told the website they had no idea their networks had been penetrated. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.
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