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[FYI] (Fwd) FC: US spy satellites sniff German companies' email,
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Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 22:12:50 -0400
To: politech@vorlon.mit.edu
From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
Subject: FC: US spy satellites sniff German companies' email, phone calls
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Or, another reason why the NSA doesn't want Germans to use strong
crypto. --Declan
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From: Blohm@concentric.net
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 12:35:36 -0400 (EDT)
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=001545599564784&rtmo=kJAY3x3p&atmo=oo
ooolsb &pg=/et/99/4/11/wspy11.html
Electronic Telegraph International News
Sunday 11 April 1999
US spy satellites 'raiding German firms' secrets'
By Tony Paterson in Berlin
SECURITY experts in Germany have uncovered new evidence of a big
American industrial espionage operation in Europe using satellite
listening posts in Britain and Germany.
German business is thought to suffer annual losses of at least £7
billion through stolen inventions and development projects. With
Europe already locked in a trade war with its American ally over
bananas, Germany's high-tech industry wants its government to back
a counter-offensive.
The main centres used for satellite tapping of millions of
confidential company telephone calls, fax and e-mail messages are
believed to be terrestrial listening posts run by the American
National Security Agency (NSA) at Menwith Hill, near Harrogate,
North Yorkshire, and Bad Aibling, Bavaria, with the backing of the
American government.
"Industrial espionage is becoming increasingly aggressive. Secrets
are being siphoned off to an extent never experienced until now,"
said Horst Teltschik, a senior BMW board member and a former
security adviser to Helmut Kohl. He is trying to co-ordinate a
German business response to the spying problem.
The practice of lifting industrial secrets via satellite listening
posts has grown steadily in central Europe since the decline in
political espionage that followed the collapse of communism. But it
has been further encouraged by advances in communications
technology.
Victims have included such German firms as the wind generator
manufacturer Enercon. Last year it developed what it thought was a
secret invention enabling it to generate electricity from wind
power at a far cheaper rate than before.
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