USA-UK: SURVEILLANCE: The NSA and GCHQ Campaign Against German Satellite Companies

12 September 2014

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"Christian Steffen, the CEO of German satellite communications company Stellar PCS. He is looking at a classified documents laying out the scope of something called Treasure Map, a top secret NSA program. Steffen’s firm provides internet access to remote portions of the globe via satellite, and what he is looking at tells him that the company, and some of its customers, have been penetrated by the U.S. National Security Agency and British spy agency GCHQ.

Stellar’s visibly shaken chief engineer, reviewing the same documents, shares his boss’ reaction. “The intelligence services could use this data to shut down the internet in entire African countries that are provided access via our satellite connections,” he says."

See the article: The NSA and GCHQ Campaign Against German Satellite Companies (Intercept, link)

And see: Treasure Map (link)

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