Telekom NSA – NSA has access to telecom network – Frankfurter Rundschau

Telekom NSA – NSA has access to telecom network – Frankfurter Rundschau

September 13, 2014

The lettering “NSA in da House” and the stylized victory sign projected on the night of 19.7.2014 in Berlin on the facade, located next to the Brandenburg Gate U.S. Embassy. Photo: AP

The secret services of the USA and Britain possessed, according to the news magazine “Der Spiegel” about covert access to the networks of Deutsche Telekom and the Cologne provider Netcologne.

This is clear from secret documents from the NSA and the British GCHQ, the magazine reported on Saturday, citing documents of the former U.S. Secret Service employee Edward Snowden.

In the graphics created by an NSA program called Treasure Map Telekom and Netcologne are listed by name and marked with a red dot. Add a caption it hot to explaining the red mark means that there is “access points” for the technical supervision was “within” these networks.

The Treasure-Map program has the report consequence, the goal is to “map the entire Internet.” With the application even devices such as computers, smartphones and tablets could be visualized if they are connected to the Internet. The program serves, inter alia, the “planning of computer attacks” and the “network-espionage,” reads aloud “mirror” in a presentation of the application.

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In addition to Telekom and Netcologne are therefore the three German Teleport provider Stellar, CETel and IABG marked with red nuclei. A GCHQ document list a number of employees by name as target persons 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 for “mirror” indications so far 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.” (AFP)