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A Death in Athens: Did a Rogue NSA Operation Cause the Death of a Greek Telecom Employee?

29 September 2015

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"The day before his death, Costas’ boss at Vodafone had ordered that a newly discovered code — a powerful and sophisticated bug — be deactivated and removed from its systems. The wiretap, placed by persons unknown, targeted more than 100 top officials, including then Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis and his wife, Natassa; the mayor of Athens; members of the Ministerial Cabinet; as well as journalists, capturing not only the country’s highest secrets, but also its most intimate conversations. The question was, who did it?

according to a highly classified NSA document provided by Snowden and previously published by The Intercept, covertly recruiting employees in foreign telecom companies has long been one of the NSA’s deepest secrets."

See the article: A Death in Athens: Did a Rogue NSA Operation Cause the Death of a Greek Telecom Employee? (Intercept, link)

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