Seven ISPs Take Legal Action Against GCHQ

mrspoonsi (2955715) writes with this excerpt from the BBC: ISPs from the U.S., UK, Netherlands, and South Korea have joined forces with campaigners Privacy International to take GCHQ to task over alleged attacks on network infrastructure. It is the first time that GCHQ has faced such action. The ISPs claim that alleged network attacks, outlined in a series of articles in Der Spiegel and the Intercept, were illegal and "undermine the goodwill the organizations rely on." The complaint (PDF).

Comments

Re:How are they going to get proof?

[Sique]

No, Belgacom was only the attack vector to get the malware up and running. From there, other providers were attacked under the disguise of Belgacom. For instance, the german exchange points DE-CIX and ECIX were attacked, thus all providers with facilities there are victims to the attack.

Re:WTF

[quenda]

GCHQ is one of those things known better by the acronym than their full name.
Even their homepage does not tell you what it stands for. I could tell you, but then ... you know.

Re:WTF

[TheRaven64]

UNIT is not a British organisation, it's under UN control.