British Secret Department of GCHQ has been monitoring Pakistan’s communication data

[Strike Rate]

LONDON (Dunya News) – Former Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) officer Edward Snowden on Tuesday revealed that the British secret department of Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) has been monitoring Pakistan’s communication data.

Snowden, who has been residing in Moscow, revealed the shocking information during an interview with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).

Snowden stated that to access such data, an exploitation of computer network was used. He stated that the information was accesed by hacking routers of CISCO. Snowden also stated that the spying was done with the permission of the British government.

Snowden stated that the apparent aim of such an act was to aid in the identification of terrorists.

The British government has refused to comment on Snowden’s revelations.

Snowden also revealed that it is almost impossible to protect the access of data of modern day smart phones from the security agencies.


http://dunyanews.tv/en/Pakistan/302425-Edward-Snowdens-revelation-GCHQ-monitored-Pakist

 

[Gabbar Singh]

Given the number of foiled terrorist plots in the UK which have had connections to Pakistan it is no surprise to hear of the British spooks doing this.

 

[Yossarian]

The Americans were monitoring the phone calls of government ministers and government leaders of their biggest and closest European allies (eg Germany). If they're willing to do that, then monitoring communications data of other countries is a given. I doubt if there was a single country on Earth that was exempt from this monitoring. If fact, it would be shocking if they weren't doing it.

 

[Yossarian]

Given the number of foiled terrorist plots in the UK which have had connections to Pakistan it is no surprise to hear of the British spooks doing this.

And you seriously believe they were not doing the same to India? If they're monitoring German ministers and the German leaders communications, you can bet they were doing the same to Indians and everyone else.

 

[SULTAN]

I'm pretty sure NSA and other foreign spy networks are monitoring anything they have access to.

and U.S. controls the internet, so they have access to most of the World's comm.

Only way to deter snooping is encryption, but then again, encryption is only a deterrence and can be cracked.

 

[s28]

On Twitter now

watch out for new levels of GCHQ trolling subverting social media of all types

 

[s28]

http://www.dailydot.com/politics/gchq-biggest-trolls-nsa-edward-snowden-jtrig/

You only think somebody is being a jerk to you online. It turns out, the most sophisticated, thorough, and highly trained Internet trolls yet uncovered actually work for the British government.

That's according to the latest revelation provided by docs leaked by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden. According to documents published at the news site First Look, the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), the U.K.'s counterpart to the NSA, has an extensive disinformation program to undermine anyone on the Internet.

Called the Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group (JTRIG), the program is detailed in an internal training document titled The Art of Deception: Training for a new generation of online covert operations, which First Look published in full. Drawing from numerous academic fields, including anthropology, psychology, and even biology, the manual shows that GCHQ engages in large-scale institutionalized online discrediting attacks against suspects, who aren't necessarily terrorists. It's essentially a modern, online counterpart to COINTELPRO, the FBI's notorious smear program used to harass Martin Luther King, Jr. until his death in 1968.

"We want to build cyber magicians," the manual states. It encourages agents to "hide the real" by masking, repackaging, and dazzling content online, and to "show the false" by mimicking, inventing, and using decoys. It presents convoluted graphs, like one that shows the respective longevity of presumably false information as it lives through text messages, Facebook profiles, LinkedIn pages, and, most disturbingly, "news media."

 

[s28]

GCHQ caught out in subverting Iran

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en-gb"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">UK spy agency GCHQ caught running fake personas on Twitter targeting <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Iran?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Iran</a>. <a href="https://t.co/qDoUzJ8CNq">https://t.co/qDoUzJ8CNq</a> <a href="https://t.co/N2j1GbkmUV">pic.twitter.com/N2j1GbkmUV</a></p>— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) <a href="https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/947989371990564864?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">2 January 2018</a></blockquote>
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