"The GCHQ mass tapping operation has been built up over five years by attaching intercept probes to transatlantic fibre-optic cables where they land on British shores carrying data to western Europe from telephone exchanges and internet servers in north America. This was done under secret agreements with commercial companies, described in one document as "intercept partners"." http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jun/21/gchq-cables-secret-world-communica… Fred _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org <javascript:;> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

Wikimedia It is related. There was a question as to whether edits and other activity on Wikipedia were being swept up. Obviously they are. Whether activities of interest to intelligence agencies are logged or ever used or how is another matter. Fred (fredbaud@fairpoint.net<javascript:;>) het by telephone http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jun/21/gchq-cables-secret-world-communica… https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org <javascript:;> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l