… at any time, and for no other cause than it wanting to do so, the Swedish Government can and will wiretap all your communications. They do so in bulk, and are restricted – if that is the appropriate word – to wiretapping no more than about two million households at a time. … Link [...]
… MİT’s involvement in the illegal wiretapping of journalists has been interpreted as a scandal by the journalists, who say they expect a satisfactory statement from MİT and the Prime Ministry. Taraf’s Çongar said the moment they learned about the illegal wiretapping of their phones, they contacted MİT and were told that “MİT does not [...]
… While BBM is said to be more secure, it appears that’s just marginally so, because all cellular phones are vulnerable to be hacked, say security experts. Phone hacking is an increasing concern for companies worried about sensitive data being plucked by competitors. A little over a year ago, a pair of researchers in Germany [...]
FOLLOWING revelations that the Military Defence Intelligence (VOS), the counterintelligence arm of the Defence Ministry, has been wiretapping journalists, media experts have stressed that eavesdropping on journalists or their contacts is unacceptable in a democracy. “Every such case of ‘weird’ wiretapping, mainly that of journalists, is a threat to democracy in a country,” the head [...]
