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Barack Obama surprised during his visit to Sweden this week with both the press conference and the dinner with the Nordic leaders willing to talk about what everyone thought would be the elephant in the room, SIGINT Agency NSA’s interception of Internet through the Prism program.
But scarcely had time the American president to leave the country before it came new revelations about how the Swedish equivalent of the NSA, the National Defence Radio Establishment (FRA), cooperates with just NSA and gives them access to cables under the Baltic Sea.
REINFELDT “Treading may not occur in the monitoring”
FRA Svenska Dagbladet reporter revealed “Sardines” 2011
While published today new Snowden-revelations in the Guardian and the New York Times, showing that the NSA is not only listens email, social media and surfing habits among world citizens. They dedicate themselves to crack the encryption keys used to protect, inter alia, bank records, and hospital records.
This is according to the newspapers not only about the NSA crack encryption, but also that they received back door behind the encryption from technology companies. According to The Guardian, the technology even made their security keys weaker after pressure from the U.S. authorities.
Thus by the revelations of a whole new level. If the NSA did not just see what I do on Facebook and chart my slösurfande, but also to access my bank account, medical records and other confidential information, the question arises whether we can rely at all on the internet. The issue is particularly acute for professions that rely on encryption for their network communications, as lawyers and journalists.
NSA back door can teach other players do it too. Can we trust the banks, insurance agency, e-identification and other encrypted services? And what if the public begins to lose confidence in the whole internet thing? The old discussion about placing the general election on the internet feels increasingly like a ludicrous idea.
The most familiar technique o ch vocal critics of the NSA using the various encryption and anonymization to avoid surveillance and deceive authorities. Now that it appears that the NSA has the power to also circumvent encryption technology, chew ‘foil hats “, those in the know, froth of outrage.
But when the public wakes up? Sure, the media posted, and the matter has been discussed vividly in many online forums. But no real public outcry against the NSA has not happened. The usual explanation is that people just do not expect anything other than that they will be monitored online, and therefore is not troubled.
Neither the Swedish involvement in monitoring so far has really taken the screw. When the Guardian in early July revealed that the UK – with the support of only Sweden – lodged a veto on talks on espionage and intelligence between the EU and the U.S., it barely noticed here.
better occasion to protest against the NSA than during Obama’s visit to Sweden this week was of course not. Yet drug march through Stockholm no more than a few thousand participants, most of whom had issues other than monitoring the top of the agenda.
Pirate Party – in the wake of FRA debate entered the EU parlamenet – saw himself drowned out by protesters for and against al-Assad in Syria. And of youth associations in the Liberal Party, the Centre Party and the Conservatives, who under FRA debate went side by side with the red-green, appeared no trace.
Opposition are now waking demanding answers from the Government of Sweden’s role in America’s surveillance network.
Somewhere, of course, limit even for ordinary citizens. Possibly it has passed when we realize that not only our Facebook Rattle intercepted, but also to the security of our bank accounts and government contacts undermined – and that Sweden obligingly helping the U.S. authority responsible for the monitoring.
LISTENING Swedish codename is said to be “Sardines”
“SECRET EU STAT” Britt behind FRA data
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