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Deutsche Telekom hopes to hide German internet traffic from spies

2013-10-14 12:21:41| Telecom - Topix.net

Germany's biggest telecoms operator is pushing to shield local internet traffic from foreign spies by routing it only through domestic connections, Deutsche Telekom said on Saturday.

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Canadian spies met with energy firms, documents reveal

2013-10-09 13:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: The Canadian government agency that allegedly hacked into the Brazilian mining and energy ministry has participated in secret meetings in Ottawa where Canadian security agencies briefed energy corporations, it has emerged. Claims of spying on the ministry by Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC) come amid the Canadian government's increasingly aggressive promotion of resource corporations at home and abroad, including unprecedented surveillance and intelligence sharing with companies....

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Report: UK and US spies have cracked BlackBerry's BES encryption

2013-09-09 17:28:54| InfoWorld: Top News

The U.S. National Security Agency is able to read messages sent via a corporate BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES), according to a report by German news magazine Der Spiegel. The purpose of this spying is economic or political, and not to counter terrorism, the magazine hints. The report, published in English on Monday, cites internal documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.

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Someone to Watch Over You: London's Recycling-Bin Spies

2013-08-31 14:00:00| TechNewsWorld

In June, Renew London equipped a dozen recycling bins in England's capital city with technology to track people's smartphones as they milled about the city. The devices went largely unnoticed until the appearance of an August article entitled, "This recycling bin is following you." The piece set off a bit of a media storm as people realized their every move was suddenly capable of being scrutinized and stored away.

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