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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...

(Updated: January 24, 2016) This weblog first reported about the joint NSA-BND operation Eikonal on October 15, 2014, but meanwhile interesting new details became available from the hearings of the German parliamentary inquiry, and from recent disclosures by a politician from Austria. Under operation Eikonal, the NSA cooperated with the German foreign intelligence service BND for access to transit cables from Deutsche Telekom in Frankfurt. Here follows an overview of what is known about this operation so far. New information may be added as it comes available. - Initial reporting - Parliamentary hearings - - Disclosures from Austria - > See for the latest: Unnoticed leak answers and raises questions about operation Eikonal   Initial reporting Operation Eikonal was revealed by the regional German paper Süddeutsche Zeitung and the regional broadcasters NDR and WDR on October 4, 2014. They reported that between 2004 and 2008, the German foreign intelligence service BND had t...

(UPDATED: January 2, 2017) Over the last couple of weeks, the German foreign intelligence agency Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) was accused of helping the NSA by carelessly or even deliberately entering selectors used for spying on foreign targets in the German satellite interception system at Bad Aibling. Here, recent outcomes of the German parliamentary inquiry will be combined with information from the various press reportings, in order to provide a more integrated picture of what happened over the past years. It becomes clear that BND did everything that seemed reasonable to prevent that German data were passed on to the Americans, but that they didn't really care about whether NSA collected communications from other European countries. We also learned more about the selectors that are used for filtering communications traffic and it became clear that it is often difficult to determine the nationality of many types of internet identifiers. Information from the parliamentary ...