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It's not just James Bond who
gets to play with all the cool gadgets. More and more business
executives are investing in secret agent-style hardware to make sure
their top-secret company plans stay under wraps.
May
09, 2007
MANILA
— A crude bugging device has been found attached to the
telephone line of former Philippine president Corazon Aquino, her son
said Thursday.
A
telephone crew on routine inspection of its facilities near the home of
Aquino, 76, in suburban Quezon city found the bug on Wednesday, her son
Benigno Aquino Jr said.
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A private detective firm earned
tens of thousands of pounds by hacking into people's computers and
bugging telephones, a court has heard.
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By JACOB GOODWIN
With
the help of the U.S. Government and a U.S.-based technology company,
the Government of Mexico plans to install a communications interception
system that would enable its federal investigations agency to monitor
and record any landline, cellular or voice over IP telephone call made
anywhere in Mexico, in an effort to thwart narcotics trafficking and
terrorism.
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May
4, 2007: Canada admitted that about half its
counter-espionage efforts were directed at Chinese spies. China, of
course,
denies everything. But as more reports of Chinese spying surface, it
becomes
obvious that there's a major espionage effort underway, with particular
emphasis on North American.
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MILAN, March 22 (Reuters) -
Italian authorities have arrested 12 more people in connection with an
investigation into illegal wiretapping by Telecom Italia (TLIT.MI:
Quote, Profile, Research) staff and others, judicial sources told
Reuters on Thursday.
The
investigation began last year, and in September magistrates arrested
several people including Telecom Italia's former head of security,
Giuliano Tavaroli.
Magistrates
accuse those arrested of illegally obtaining information through
wiretapping and computer hacking.
Those
arrested on Thursday are mainly police officers who, magistrates
suspect, participated in the illegal activities, the sources said.
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Wal-Mart's disclosure that an
employee tapped phone conversations and text messages is drawing
attention to a growth industry within corporate America: the business
of keeping things secret.
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The interim government gave a
stark warning to telephone operators yesterday, saying they risk losing
their licences if they are caught tapping the conversations of
customers. The warning came just days after Council for National
Security chairman Gen Sonthi Boonyaratkalin alerted the Assets Scrutiny
Committee (ASC) that mobile phones of people involved in investigating
corruption cases against the former regime may have been tapped.
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Revelations of a sustained
bugging campaign targeting two government ministers, a newspaper
editor, an England footballer and a string of celebrities prompted
calls yesterday for tougher sentences for the buying and selling of
confidential personal data.
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It is not possible to prevent
eavesdropping on mobile phones because radio signals spread in the air
and can be tapped anywhere, Information and Communication Technology
Minister Sitthichai Pookaiyaudom said today.
"No
country in the world can prevent phone tapping," said Mr Sitthichai
during an interview with Channel 11 Saturday morning. Nor is it
possible to know whether one's phone is being tapped.
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on
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• Absolutely no back doors - encryption
keys are randomly generated by the software and can not be provided to
any organization, private or governmental
• Certified by the Israeli
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Defense
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• Dual combination of
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symmetric encryption
• Automatic generation of
RSA 1024 / AES
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• Low audio latency (low
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• 256 bit random session
key,
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Foreign spies are stepping up
efforts to obtain secret U.S. technology through methods ranging from
sexual entrapment to Internet hacking, with China and other Asian
countries leading the targeting of U.S. defense contractors.
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While the United States is
embroiled in debate over continuing revelations of official
eavesdropping, data mining and other surveillance programs, democracies
in Asia and Europe are grappling with similar wiretapping scandals of
their own.
These
stories are not well covered in America, but they demonstrate that our
problem is a universal one. Regardless of geography, in the absence of
strong legal and technological safeguards, officials simply cannot
resist listening in.
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Seoul -- An explosive
eavesdropping scandal, revealed Thursday, involving South Korea's top
envoy to Washington and the nation's industrial giant Samsung Group
worsens as media reports reveal more details of shocking private
conversations allegedly held between the two parties regarding support
for a presidential candidate in 1997.
A
former spy agent asserted yesterday that a clandestine eavesdropping
unit within the spy agency which spied on influential figures in the
1990s was disbanded after technology emerged to make it possible to
wiretap mobile phones.
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Greece's privacy watchdog has
fined Vodafone €76m ($100m) over a wiretapping scandal that
saw the illegal monitoring of the mobile calls of top government
officials including Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis.
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The most common retort against
privacy advocates -- by those in favor of ID checks, cameras,
databases, data mining and other wholesale surveillance measures -- is
this line: "If you aren't doing anything wrong, what do you have to
hide?"
Some
clever answers: "If I'm not doing anything wrong, then you have no
cause to watch me." "Because the government gets to define what's
wrong, and they keep changing the definition." "Because you might do
something wrong with my information." My problem with quips like these
-- as right as they are -- is that they accept the premise that privacy
is about hiding a wrong. It's not. Privacy is an inherent human right,
and a requirement for maintaining the human condition with dignity and
respect.
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Foreign countries, especially
nations in the Asia-Pacific region, have intensified their efforts to
steal sensitive U.S. defense technology, according to a Pentagon report.
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In
many parts of the world, advanced CI techniques are already old hat.
According to Jonathan Calof, an associate professor at the University
of Ottawa and chair of the Canadian arm of SCIP, most major Japanese
corporations have their own intelligence experts. In Sweden, too, many
of the country's top 500 firms boast world-class CI departments, while
universities offer courses and degrees in CI. The French government,
with the help of the country's national intelligence agency, also runs
an ambitious commercial intelligence program, although some of its
methods have been questionable. In the early 1990s, Air France
reportedly bugged first-class seats and employed state intelligence
operatives as first-class crew.
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VANCOUVER - After being refused
twice by the courts for permission to tap a B.C. government cellphone,
the RCMP pushed through a third request by not telling the judge the
phone was actually registered at the legislature, B.C. Supreme Court
was told Monday.
That
eventually led the RCMP to inadvertently eavesdropon a private
conversation between B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell and former finance
minister Gary Collins.
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With advances in digital
technology, wireless voice communications are much more difficult to
intercept than analog phones. The digital signal that is received by a
standard radio scanner is undecipherable and sounds like the noise made
by a modem or fax machine when transmitting over phone lines. Law
enforcement-grade scanners can monitor digital communications, but
these are expensive and generally not available on the open marketplace
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Electronic Surveillance involves
the traditional laws on wiretapping--any interception of a telephone
transmission by accessing the telephone signal itself--and
eavesdropping--listening in on conversations without the consent of the
parties.
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Hundley and the three others
were successfully indicted by District Attorney Mike Harson after our
I-Team uncovered allegations the four were using an illegal listening
device inside the police station to eavesdrop on other members of the
department.
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Police have questioned a
newspaper's royal editor and two other men about claims that staff
working for Prince Charles had phone calls intercepted.
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ATHENS (AP)--The head of
Ericsson's operations in Greece on Wednesday disputed an account given
by telecom giant Vodafone about a major wiretapping scandal that
included illegal surveillance of the country's prime minister.
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A network of Chinese industrial
spies has been established across Europe as the Communist government's
intelligence agencies shift their resources and attention from
traditional Cold War espionage towards new forms of subterfuge aimed at
achieving global commercial dominance.
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All
actively collect information on U.S. companies using an apparatus honed
to perfection during the Cold War. Now, in addition to national
security information, these organizations are finding out what makes
successful companies so successful.
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- The former
executive director of the Virginia Republican Party pleaded guilty
Tuesday to a felony charge of eavesdropping on a Democratic Party
conference call, the U.S. attorney's office said.
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