Kim Dotcom Apparently Spied On For Longer Than Admitted

another random user writes "Kim Dotcom's internet connection was being diverted inside New Zealand weeks before the Government Communications Security Bureau says it started spying on him. The New Zealand Herald has obtained details showing Telecom engineers and staff at its technology services company Gen-I were investigating irregularities with his internet connection in November. The revelation has raised suspicion that Mr Dotcom was victim to earlier spying than the GCSB has admitted. It has brought fresh calls for an inquiry amid claims of the spy agency's role in the international 'Five Eyes' Echelon Network."

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Really? That is proof of spying?

[Baloroth]

So his network started taking 5 steps to get out of country instead of 2, and that means he was being spied upon? I mean, sure, it's possible, but it doesn't even make sense. If they can re-direct his traffic, why not just copy it, either at one of the jumps or send a second copy to someone else? Unless you need to be able to cut off the communication (which you can't really do in 180ms anyways, unless it is automated, in which case you can do it without the jumps anyways), there isn't any reason to send it through a longer path.

Much much more likely is that it was a routing problem. You know, the kind of thing that happens all the time. But since it involves Dotcom, of course it must have been spying. Right.