Tuesday, May 19, 2015

“BND and NSA tapped Internet Netherlands finished ‘- NU.nl

That says Austrian politician Peter Pilz, according to German magazine Der Spiegel on Monday. On Tuesday he will announce more details at a news conference in Berlin.

The BND would have tapped the Internet traffic in the Internet exchange DE-CIX in Frankfurt, one of the largest hubs in the world.

Through cooperation between the BND and US intelligence NSA would the US have gained insight into the tapped data . <- block |? article link end ->

German intelligence service, according to internal memos in 2005 by a “big omschakelactie” have tried to thwart the NSA when looking at German targets. Then, the BND his colleagues from the NSA or offered the opportunity to watch it there with the transit pipelines flowed through Germany.

Because of the size of, inter alia, DE-CIX node is a substandieel part of European Internet traffic.

Pilz wants the Austrian Parliament is investigating and wants criminal proceedings against BND employees and against Deutsche Telekom because they are guilty as him to spy against Austria.

The telecom company says to have done nothing wrong and just to have acted in line with German law. It offered only claims to be the technology for the transfer of the transit line to the BND. What intelligence did with the information and that it is routed to the NSA since we know nothing about, said a spokesman in Der Spiegel .

By: Reuters / NU.nl

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