NSA has access to telecom networks? – Www.dw.de

NSA has access to telecom networks? – Www.dw.de

covert access the secret NSA and GCHQ could monitor the networks of Deutsche Telekom and Netcologne and teleport provider Stellar, CETel and IABG directly reports the “mirror”. The magazine refers to documents of the US-Whistleblowers Edward Snowden.

was previously known, among other things, that the British GCHQ, cooperating with the NSA, probably taps into the running between the continents fiber optic cable to the Internet traffic to monitor. According to the new documents is conceivable that access and successes of Germany from the magazine wrote. According to NSA documents stand of 13 worldwide servers, the monitored Internet traffic for the NSA, one in Germany: “camouflaged” and “unremarkable” in a data center

monitoring in “near real time. “

Specifically, it related to undated graphical views with the NSA program” Treasure Map “(treasure map) had been created. It Telekom and Netcologne are listed by name and marks all companies mentioned five with a red dot, which means according to the caption that “access points” for the technical supervision was “within” these networks.

Beyond large fiber optic cable connections could intelligence analysts in “near real time” visualize important network junctions as single router – and even Internet-connected devices such as computers, smartphones and tablets, writes the magazine. The goal is “any device, anywhere, anytime” to make it visible.

Telekom German authorities turned

A document GCHQ list a number of employees in particular as to target individuals and also contains passwords for the server from Stellar’s clients. If it were “trade secrets and sensitive information,” said Stellar IT chief Ali Fares the “mirror”. CEO Christian Steffen said: “Such a cyber attack is clearly punishable under German law.”

Telecom and Netcologne could not yet find any suspicious devices or data transmissions. “The access of foreign secret services on our network would be totally unacceptable,” said telecom security chief Thomas Tschersich. “We go every indication of a possible manipulation after. Moreover, we have turned the German security authorities.”

from / sti (AFP, AP)