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| Subject: More on how NSA bugged UN headquarters: report Tue Aug 27, 2013 3:10 am | |
| The US National Security Agency has bugged the United Nations' New York headquarters, according to a report that could further strain relations between Washington and its allies.
Citing secret US documents obtained by fugitive former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, Germany's Der Spiegel said the files showed how the US systematically spied on other states and institutions.
The report said the European Union and the UN's Vienna-based nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), were among those targeted by US intelligence agents.
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In the summer of 2012, NSA experts succeeded in getting into the UN video conferencing system and cracking its coding system, according one of the documents cited in the report.
"The data traffic gives us internal video teleconferences of the United Nations (yay!)," Der Spiegel quoted one document as saying, adding that within three weeks the number of decoded communications rose to 458 from 12.
http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/security-it/nsa-bugged-un-headquarters-report-20130827-hv1ix.html |
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