Privacy security
The Intercept is reporting: “American and British spies hacked into the internal computer network of
the largest manufacturer of SIM cards in the world, stealing encryption keys
used to protect the privacy of cellphone communications across the globe,
according to top-secret documents provided to The Intercept by
National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden.
“The hack was perpetrated by a joint unit consisting of operatives from the
NSA and its British counterpart Government Communications Headquarters, or
GCHQ. The breach, detailed in a secret 2010 GCHQ document, gave the surveillance agencies the potential to secretly monitor a large
portion of the world’s cellular communications, including both voice and data.
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