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  • My Guess Is =?UTF-8?B?SXTigJlz?= The US

    From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@21:1/5 to All on Thu Mar 21 00:46:18 2024
    Our GCSB has “has been rebuked for hosting a foreign agency’s spy
    operation for several years without telling its minister, and without
    knowing whether doing so was contributing to military strikes
    overseas.” <https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/improper-nz-spy-agency-slammed-for-hosting-foreign-spying-without-telling-minister-or-cabinet/7SQYOG55QNHIXOXB2GFPVJVC5U/>.

    Which country the foreign spooks were from is classified, but, let’s
    face it, only the US would have the chutzpah.

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  • From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@21:1/5 to All on Thu Mar 21 06:30:13 2024
    On Thu, 21 Mar 2024 00:46:18 -0000 (UTC), I wrote:

    Our GCSB has “has been rebuked for hosting a foreign agency’s spy operation for several years ...

    More information in this evening’s news. There was some mention of “equipment”, which sounds to me like signal/data/traffic analysis systems that were plugged into the GCSB’s raw data-gathering feeds. It was
    uncovered by higher-ups (yup, the agents involved hadn’t even informed
    their higher-ups) in 2020, and coincidentally (?), it failed around that
    time.

    Coincidentally?? Or did somebody back at Fort Meade send a self-destruct
    signal when word came that they’d been rumbled?

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  • From BR@21:1/5 to ldo@nz.invalid on Fri Mar 22 04:30:25 2024
    On Thu, 21 Mar 2024 06:30:13 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro
    <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

    On Thu, 21 Mar 2024 00:46:18 -0000 (UTC), I wrote:

    Our GCSB has has been rebuked for hosting a foreign agencys spy
    operation for several years ...

    More information in this evenings news.

    You watch the news?

    That explains a lot.

    Bill.

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  • From Rich80105@21:1/5 to blah@blah.blah on Fri Mar 22 15:32:09 2024
    On Fri, 22 Mar 2024 04:30:25 +1300, BR <blah@blah.blah> wrote:

    On Thu, 21 Mar 2024 06:30:13 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro ><ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

    On Thu, 21 Mar 2024 00:46:18 -0000 (UTC), I wrote:

    Our GCSB has has been rebuked for hosting a foreign agencys spy
    operation for several years ...

    More information in this evenings news.

    You watch the news?

    That explains a lot.

    Bill.
    Good thing he does then as otherwise you may have been unaware of the
    issue. On the other hand, some people don't deal well with facts.

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  • From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@21:1/5 to All on Thu Mar 28 21:57:42 2024
    On Thu, 21 Mar 2024 00:46:18 -0000 (UTC), I wrote:

    Our GCSB has “has been rebuked for hosting a foreign agency’s spy operation for several years without telling its minister, and without
    knowing whether doing so was contributing to military strikes overseas.”

    More info: <https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/edward-snowden-leaked-papers-reveal-rogue-spying-tool-found-in-gcsb-was-likely-used-to-hunt-war-on-terror-targets-and-spy-on-china/SFXKM3PPZFEXTOE2NZIBPKWY7A/>.
    It was indeed an NSA tool. Seems my earlier guess that it was
    auto-destructed after being discovered was wrong: it was the equipment malfunction that led to it being discovered. Sending out rubbish data
    and disrupting the GCSB network, perhaps? Or something as simple as
    shorting and blowing a fuse?

    The capacity to identify VSAT installations is interesting, though. Is
    that done in coordination with some of those classified satellites
    that have been launched?

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