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(Updated: September 21, 2017) Last Tuesday, June 23, the website Wikileaks (in cooperation with Libération and Mediapart ) published a number of NSA-documents showing that between 2006 and 2012, NSA had been able to eavesdrop on the phone calls of three French presidents. This is the first time we see actual finished intelligence reports that prove such eavesdropping, and being classified as TOP SECRET//COMINT-GAMMA they are much more sensitive than most of the documents from the Snowden-archive. Also it seems that these new Wikileaks-documents are not from Snowden, but from another source, which could be the same as the one that leaked a database record about NSA's eavesdropping on German chancellor Merkel. Update: On Monday, June 29, Wikileaks published two Information Need (IN) requests and five additional intelligence reports , but the latter are not as highly classified as the ones revealed earlier. - Intelligence reports - Tasking database records - A second source - ...

(Updated: March 17, 2017) Recently, a mysterious telephone was offered for sale at eBay . The device was made by the little-known company Tektron Micro Electronics, Inc. from Hanover, Maryland, and seems to be a secure phone for military use. Apart from the pictures shown below, nothing more is known about it, but maybe some readers of this weblog recognize the device and have some more information about its purpose and where it was used (see the update !) A Tektron secure military telephone (Photo via eBay - Click to enlarge) The phone comes without a handset, but it has a display and a common 12-button key pad, with some additional special purpose buttons. According to the seller, all of them are made of some kind of rubbery material instead of hard plastic. The big round buttons reveal that this is a secure phone, capable encrypting the calls: a green button with a green light for Secure and a red button with a (probably) red light for Non-Secure: Keypad of the Tektron telephone (P...