[Wikimedia-l] Tapping into the Backbone

[Fred Bauder]

> Can you please stop spamming Us With topics like this? Its not Wikimedia
> related at all.
>
> Huib

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

> Op zaterdag 22 juni 2013 schreef Fred Bauder (fredbaud at fairpoint.net) het
> volgende:
>
>> "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-communications-nsa
>>
>> Fred
>>
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> Met vriendelijke groet,
>
> Huib Laurens
>