Alat spionase AS di Jakarta terbongkar
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Peta titik-titik alat penyadapan AS di Asia.

Sindonews.com – Dugaan skandal operasi spionase Amerika Serikat, meluas hingga ke Asia, termasuk Indonesia. AS diduga melakukan penyadapan dengan menggunakan alat yang terpasang di Kedutaan Besar AS, di Jakarta. Hal itu terungkap dari bocoran dokumen milik bekas kontraktor National Security Agency (NSA), Edward Snowden. Mengutip laporan media Australia, smh.com.au, dari bocoran Snowden terungkap, fasilitas penyadapan AS sebanyak 90 titik yang tersebar di seluruh dunia.

Untuk wilayah, Asia Tenggara, berbagai alat penyadapan AS diduga terpasang di Kedutaan Besar di Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok, Phnom Penh dan Yangon. Pada 13 Agustus 2010, sebuah peta tidak menunjukkan fasilitas penyadapan itu terpasang di Australia, Selandia Baru, Inggris, Jepang dan Singapura, yang semuanya diketahui sebagai sekutu terdekat AS.

Peta titik-titik alat penyadapan NSA itu dipublikasikan majalah Jerman Der Spiegel, Selasa kemarin. Peta, yang awalnya dipublikasikan secara penuh di website Der Spiegel, kemudian diganti dengan versi yang disensor. Dari website itu, tampak fasilitas penyadapan NSA ada di 90 lokasi di seluruh dunia. Termasuk 74 fasilitas berawak, 14 fasilitas dioperasikan dari jarak jauh dan dua dioperasikan dari pusat dukungan teknis.

Di Asia timur , upaya pengumpulan intelijen AS difokuskan pada China, dengan fasilitas yang terletak di Kedutaan Besar AS di Beijing dan konsulat AS di Shanghai dan Chengdu, Ibukota Provinsi Sichuan di barat daya China. Fasilitas lain pemantauan terletak di kantor diplomatik AS di Taipei.
http://international.sindonews.com/r...rta-terbongkar

iSpy: How the NSA Accesses Smartphone Data
By Marcel Rosenbach, Laura Poitras and Holger Stark



The US intelligence agency NSA has been taking advantage of the smartphone boom. It has developed the ability to hack into iPhones, android devices and even the BlackBerry, previously believed to be particularly secure.

Michael Hayden has an interesting story to tell about the iPhone. He and his wife were in an Apple store in Virginia, Hayden, the former head of the United States National Security Agency (NSA), said at a conference in Washington recently. A salesman approached and raved about the iPhone, saying that there were already "400,000 apps" for the device. Hayden, amused, turned to his wife and quietly asked: "This kid doesn't know who I am, does he? Four-hundred-thousand apps means 400,000 possibilities for attacks."

Hayden was apparently exaggerating only slightly. According to internal NSA documents from the Edward Snowden archive that SPIEGEL has been granted access to, the US intelligence service doesn'tjust bug embassies and access data from undersea cables to gain information. The NSA is also extremely interested in that new form of communication which has experienced such breathtaking success in recent years: smartphones.

In Germany, more than 50 percent of all mobile phone users now possess a smartphone; in the UK, the share is two-thirds. About 130 million people in the US have such a device. The mini-computers have become personal communication centers, digital assistants and life coaches, and they often know more about their users than most users suspect.

For an agency like the NSA, the data storage units are a goldmine, combining in a single device almost all the information that would interest an intelligence agency: social contacts, details about the user's behavior and location, interests (through search terms, for example), photos and sometimes credit card numbers and passwords.
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source: http://www.spiegel.de/international/...-a-921161.html

'Follow the Money': NSA Spies on International Payments


In 2011, the NSA possessed 180 million records through its "Follow the Money" branch.

The United States' NSA intelligence agency is interested in international payments processed by companies including Visa, SPIEGEL has learned. It has even set up its own financial database to track money flows through a "tailored access operations" division.

The National Security Agency (NSA) widely monitors international payments, banking and credit card transactions, according to documents seen by SPIEGEL.

The information from the American foreign intelligence agency, acquired by former NSA contractor and whistleblower Edward Snowden, show that the spying is conducted by a branch called "Follow the Money" (FTM). The collected information then flows into the NSA's own financial databank, called "Tracfin," which in 2011 contained 180 million records. Some 84 percent of the data is from credit card transactions.

Further NSA documents from 2010 show that the NSA also targets the transactions of customers of large credit card companies like VISA for surveillance. NSA analysts at an internal conference that year described in detail how they had apparently successfully searched through the US company's complex transaction network for tapping possibilities.

Their aim was to gain access to transactions by VISA customers in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, according to one presentation. The goal was to "collect, parse and ingest transactional data for priority credit card associations, focusing on priority geographic regions."

In response to a SPIEGEL inquiry, however, VISA issued a statement in which it said, "We are not aware of any unauthorized access to our network. Visa takes data security seriously and, in response to any attempted intrusion, we would pursue all available remedies to the fullest extent of the law. Further, its Visa's policy to only provide transaction information in response to a subpoena or other valid legal process."

The NSA's Tracfin data bank also contained data from the Brussels-based Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), a network used by thousands of banks to send transaction information securely. SWIFT was named as a "target," according to the documents, which also show that the NSA spied on the organization on several levels, involving, among others, the agency's "tailored access operations" division. One of the ways the agency accessed the data included reading "SWIFT printer traffic from numerous banks," the documents show.

But even intelligence agency employees are somewhat concerned about spying on the world finance system, according to one document from the UK's intelligence agency GCHQ concerning the legal perspectives on "financial data" and the agency's own cooperations with the NSA in this area. The collection, storage and sharing of politically sensitive data is a deep invasion of privacy, and involved "bulk data" full of "rich personal information," much of which "is not about our targets," the document says.
souce: http://www.spiegel.de/international/...-a-922276.html

Sorry to bug you || Nobody is immune to Washington's online espionage
In light of suspicions that the United States monitored the German chancellor’s cellphone calls, Haaretz lists the officially sanctioned wiretappings that have been reported thus far.
By Asaf Ronel | Oct. 24, 2013 | 8:28 PM


Hundreds of demonstrators protest against the supposed surveillance by the U.S. National Security Agency, NSA, during a rally in in Berlin, Germany, July 27, 2013.

In the four months since Edward Snowden handed the media the reams of documents he had downloaded from the servers of the National Security Agency describing the United States’ online espionage program, Washington has had to deal with fury from all over the world over America’s flagrant invasion of privacy of Internet and mobile users. The revelations have triggered diplomatic crises with several international institutions and nations, from old rivals such as China and Russia to close allies like Mexico, and now Germany.

Extensive spying in France
In recent days, before the revelation about the tapping of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cellphone, an affair the Americans have yet to explain satisfactorily, Washington was facing French ire due to the disclosure that the United States had listened in on phone conversations of millions of French citizens, and tapped France’s diplomatic missions in Washington and at United Nations headquarters in New York. The Americans denied the report about listening in on the phone conversations, but had nothing to say about the second allegation.

Surveillance of embassies in the U.S.
Earlier this summer it was revealed that the Americans were spying on 38 diplomatic missions of foreign nations on American soil. In addition to Middle Eastern countries that are ideological enemies, American intelligence also spied on European Union nations such as France, Italy and Greece, as well as other American allies like Japan, Mexico, South Korea, India and Turkey. The September 2010 document does not mention spying on either Great Britain or Germany.

Wiretapping the European Union
The same source revealed that the Americans had also placed surveillance on European Union missions in New York and Washington. The expose came shortly after Der Spiegel revealed that Washington spied on the EU both in its Brussels offices and one of its missions in Germany. These revelations endangered the formulation of a new trade agreement between the EU and the U.S., and French President Francois Hollande threatened to freeze the talks on the agreement unless “we receive a guarantee that the surveillance program ends immediately.”

Surveillance of UN headquarters
As if that weren’t enough, Der Spiegel also disclosed that the National Security Agency had placed the UN headquarters in New York under surveillance. According to the report, the NSA managed to intercept an internal video conversation in the summer of 2012 after it had kracked its encoding. The agency’s document claimed that kracking the encoding allowed for “dramatic improvements” in American’s wiretapping abilities. Within three weeks, the number of calls intercepted went from 12 to 458, according to the document. In one instance, the U.S. discovered that Chinese intelligence was also eavesdropping on the UN. Der Spiegel also asserted that the U.S. had “wiretapping programs” in 80 American embassies and consulates around the world, including those in Frankfurt and Vienna. It kept it secret so as “not to damage relations with host nations,” the report said.

Intensive surveillance in Germany
The current crisis with the Germans is not the first the American’s have had with this ally. This summer Der Spiegel also revealed that the U.S. espionage programs included intensive surveillance of German sources. According to the report, in April 2013 the U.S. ranked its intelligence targets on a scale of 1 (the highest level of interest) to 5. Germany was ranked below France and Japan, but above Italy and Spain. Heading the American list of intelligence targets were China, Russia, Iran, Pakistan, North Korea and Afghanistan.

Brazilian and Mexican presidents in the crosshairs
Snowden’s papers paint a picture in which American intelligence related only to four nations (all of them English-speaking: Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand and Canada) as very close allies and therefore immune to surveillance. It seems that all other countries were viewed as legitimate targets. Last month, the Brazilian news agency reported that the NSA accessed Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff’s emails, phone conversations and text messages as well as those of Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto.

Israel: a countersurveillance target
Israel was also mentioned as a target. The Washington Post revealed that official members of the American intelligence community were turning their digital counterespionage means on both friend and foe. Pakistan was described as a rogue target, and espionage efforts were dedicated to more important targets such as China, Russia, Iran, Cuba and Israel.

Breaking into Chinese communications networks
Less surprising was the disclosure that U.S. intelligence had set their sights on traditional American enemies such as China and Russia as well as nations in the Arab world. Snowden also revealed that the Americans had Chinese cellular communications companies under surveillance, which included the collection of millions of text messages and the hacking of databases at Tsinghua University in Beijing and the fiber-optic company Pacnet.

Sting operation aimed at Russian president
Politicians and foreign sources participating in the G-20 summit in London in 2009 were placed under British intelligence surveillance. Documents obtained by The Guardian show that the British Government Communications Headquarters tapped their phones, monitored their computers and intercepted their email correspondence after having maneuvered them into using Internet cafés it had set up. Among the victims of the sting were then-Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and members of the Turkish delegation including then-Finance Minister Mehmet Simsek. The Guardian also alleged that the Americans had tried to hack into President Medvedev’s satellite phone.

Hacking into Al Jazeera’s computers
Newspapers were also not immune to American espionage. Der Spiegel reported that the NSA also had Qatari news network Al Jazeera under surveillance. According to the documents, the NSA penetrated Al Jazeera’s internal communications system, which was likely to have maintained many contacts in the Arab world and also broadcast audio and video recordings of Al-Qaida leaders. Der Spiegel noted that, according to a March 2006 memo, the NSA had managed to obtain and read a dispatch of “targets of interest” whose identity Al Jazeera was protecting. The NSA called the penetration into Al Jazeera “a remarkable success,” as they did the penetration of the booking system of Aeroflot, the Russian national carrier.

Crisis with Bolivia
Snowden’s revelations have also caused a diplomatic crisis between the U.S. and other nations regardless of computer hacking. The Bolivian government says it was angry with the U.S. after President Evo Morales’ airplane was, because of American pressure, forced to land in Austria en route from Russia to La Paz because the Americans suspected that Snowden was on board.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/world/.p...emium-1.554273

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Yang menemukan teknologi internet dan sistem komunokasi satelit, kebanyakan adalah orang Amerika Serikat sehingga wajar sekali mereka paling paham cara pemanfaatan teknologi itu, termasuk semua software dan jaringan sosial media yang mereka bangun, demi kepentingan nasional mereka untuk tetap bisa menguasai (hegemony) negara-negara lain di seluruh dunia, termasuk sekutu Eropanya sekalipun. Jerman menjadi target utama, berikut negara Amerika Latyn yang besar seperti Brazil, Argentina dan Mexico, karena negeri-negeri itu di masa lalu adalah pernah menjadi "musuh" AS dalam peta geo-politik. Untuk saat ini tentunya China, India dan Korut serta Iran. Sementara sekutu abadi AS seperti Inggris dan Australia, memang shohib akrab negeri digdaya itu. Sementara Israel, seperti artikel di media online haaretz.com diatas, ternyata justru protektif sekali atas upaya pihak AS untuk memata-matai negeri yahudi itu.




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