In the crosshairs of mass wiretapping Greece and Cyprus

Of the new confidential documents that see the light of day (www.wikileaks.org/tisa/) of particular interest to Greece and Cyprus is that concerning telecommunications services, which reveals that the US negotiating team is pushing for access to submarine communications cables. The documents are published by the Athenian Nation in collaboration with Wikileaks (www.wikileaks.org).

It is recalled that the information obtained by former US National Security Agency (NSA) officer Edward Snowden, shows without any doubt that the US and British secret services have developed mass surveillance programs, which steal information that intercepts The interceptions carried out by the implementation of monitoring programs concern from data of electronic messages and files sent via the Internet to telephone communications and videos. Greece and Cyprus are two of the main nodes of submarine cables in the Mediterranean, perspectives connecting Europe with Africa, the Middle East and Asia. These are two strategic points mainly due to the US interest in the situation in the countries of the Arab world. According to the revelations made by Edward Snowden, it seems that the NSA has cooperated with American telecommunications companies which, if this proposal passes, will be able to access the points where the submarine cables end in territory of the TiSA member countries. Specifically, for Greece the greatest interest in terms of submarine fiber optic terminals is focused on the facilities in Chania. A total of five such cables pass through there. The three are of local interest for the Eastern Mediterranean and connect Greece with Cyprus, Malta, Libya, Israel and Turkey. The other two cables passing through Chania are even more interesting, as they connect dozens of countries. planet: SMW 3, which starts in Germany, continues peripherally from the Atlantic, the Strait of Gibraltar, from there to the Suez Canal and continues to South Korea and Australia, with a total length of 39.000 km. The second is AsiaAfricaEurope 1 which starts in France and follows almost the same course as the previous one, and reaches China and Malaysia with a length of about 25.000 kilometers. Even more submarine cables pass through Cyprus that are of particular interest to the secret services: seven Pentaschino, five from Geroskipou, one from Paphos and one from Ayia Napa.Tempora monitoring program

One of the surveillance programs developed by the US and British secret services, which saw the light of day during the revelations of Edward Snowden, is "Tempora". During its implementation, about 200 "catheters" were used which were connected to submarine cables in the British territory and thus huge volumes of data were stolen, which at a later stage, depending on the information grading and the interest they showed, were shared in the alliance of " FiveEyes ", the secret services of the United States, Britain, Australia, Canada and New Zealand. Wikileaks documents covering the latest round of negotiations make it very clear that the Americans are sticking to this arrangement. related to shipping, e-commerce and finance services.Source: Liberal