BY Philip Dorling
Newly disclosed documents from
former US intelligence contractor
Edward Snowden have revealed that
Australian intelligence efforts
against Indonesia do not just target
suspected terrorists or key political
figures but involve massive
penetration of Indonesia’s phone
networks and data collection on a
huge scale.
Top secret documents reported by
The New York Times have
disclosed new details of
cooperation between the US
National Security Agency and the
Australian Signals Directorate, and
for the first time reveal the
Australian electronic espionage
agency's comprehensive access to
Indonesian's national
communications systems.
According to a 2012 National
Security Agency document, the
Australian Signals Directorate has
accessed bulk call data from
Indosat, Indonesia’s domestic
satellite telecommunications
provider including data on
Indonesian officials in various
government ministries. Another 2013 document states that
the Australian Signals Directorate
obtained nearly 1.8 million
encrypted master keys, which are
used to protect private
communications, from the
Telkomsel mobile telephone
network in Indonesia, and
developed a way to decrypt almost
all of them.
Australia’s relations with Indonesia
have already been strained by
revelations last November that the
Australian and US embassies in
Jakarta house covert electronic
surveillance facilities, code-named
"Stateroom”, and that the
Australian Signals Directorate
intercepted the mobile phones of
Indonesian President Susilo
Bambang Yudhoyono, his wife and
many of his closest political
associates.
It was also reported that the
National Security Agency and its
Australian counterpart had worked
together on a surveillance
operation targeting a 2007 United
Nations climate change conference
in Bali.
The latest disclosures from
documents leaked by Mr Snowden
confirm that Australia and the
United States share very broad
access to Indonesia’s
telecommunications systems.
The New York Times further
reports that the Australia Signals
Directorate specifically monitored
communications between the
Indonesian Government and a US
law firm that was representing
Jakarta in trade disputes with the
United States.
According to a monthly bulletin
from the National Security
Agency's liaison office in Canberra,
dated February 2013, Australia
offered to share the intercepted
communications that included
“information covered by attorney-
client privilege".
US liaison officials asked for
guidance from the National
Security Agency’s in-house lawyers
because of US legal restrictions on
targeting American citizens or
businesses for surveillance without
a warrant.
With agreement from the National
Security Agency’s headquarters at
Fort Meade, Maryland, the
Australian Signals Directorate was
“able to continue to cover the
talks, providing highly useful
intelligence for interested US
customers".
The documents also refer the
operation of the US-Australian
Joint Defence Facility at Pine Gap
near Alice Springs, and joint efforts
to decrypt foreign diplomatic and
military communications.
One 2003 memo describes how
National Security Agency personnel
sought to “mentor” their Australian
partners while they tried to break
the encryption used by Papua New
Guinea defence force.
Much of Australia’s interception of
Indonesian satellite-based
telecommunications is carried out
through the Shoal Bay Naval
Receiving Station, a satellite
communications intercept facility
located near Darwin in the
Northern Territory.
The United States and Australia also
access phone calls and Internet
traffic carried by undersea
telecommunications cables that run
through Singapore.
The Australian Government has
repeatedly refused to comment on
disclosures of intelligence
capabilities and operations through
documents leaked by Mr Snowden.
source : http://m.canberratimes.com.au/national/australia-us-accessing-indonesian-telephone-data-leaked-documents-show-20140216-32td8.html
----------
kalo repsol di close saja