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Snowden Docs: Brits Hacked Accounts of Belgian IT Admins
An anonymous reader writes "British secret service GCHQ is willing to penetrate the networks of telecoms firms to subsequently use them for spying. German magazine DER SPIEGEL reports GCHQ hacked the machines of Belcacom staff to later use their GRX routers for targeted man-in-the-middle-attacks on people's phones. Belgacom is the biggest telecom in Belgium, and is partly state-owned. DER SPIEGEL publishes three original slides from a GCHQ presentation. They specifically mention targeting 'engineers/systems administrators.'"
They dont. Belgians arent bullies who try to intimidate everyone.
Yeah, well except that minor unpleasantness in the late 19th century where their King was responsible for the murder and genocide of between 2 and 15 million people in the Congo.
One has to wonder if the "boring Belgians" stereotype was encouraged by the Belgians themselves, since it's probably preferable to being associated with a King who seems- by all accounts- to have been the forerunner of Adolph Hitler. Or maybe it just didn't count as much back then (and now?) when it was Africans being killed in that manner.
Don't go throwing the first rock if you don't want it thrown back at you :
American indian genocide + slavery up until the 1960's is something to be proud of ?
British inventing the "concentration camp" and carrying out wars of conquest/genocide all over the world is something to be proud of ?
French colonialism is not something to be proud of.
Even the Germans have dirty hands.
And the Cinese, and the Japanese and Russians and Turks and the Spanish and Portuguese and the Italians and the Austrians.
You want redress in this world ? Get the southern hemisphere to wipe out the entire northern hemisphere where all of these countries are.