State Agencies security of the United States and Britain stole encryption codes SIM cards allowing them to spy on communications virtually any mobile phone in the world, said the website The Intercept.
According to this page, created to disclose leaks about secret operations of governments, the National Security Agency (NSA) of the US and Communications Headquarters Government of the United Kingdom (GCHQ) penetrated the computer network of the European card manufacturer Gemalto SIM, to hack the encryption codes.
“The GCHQ, with support from the NSA, monitored private communications” of engineers and other employees of Gemalto group “in several countries” to steal the codes, notes The Intercept article, directed by journalist Glenn Greenwald, who published the revelations of excontratista Edward Snowden.
If confirmed this information, you could say that the NSA and GCHQ have the ability to secretly monitor a large share of global mobile communications devices without presenting a warrant or a phone intervene.
“This would be very serious,” said Bruce Schneier, a cryptographer, CTO of the company Resilient Security Systems and member of the Berkman Center at Harvard.
“The concern is that the NSA pirates worldwide to reach some people,” Schneier told AFP.
The agencies intercepted codes of each SIM card when the manufacturer sent them to the telecommunications operator had acquired, the report said.
“It is impossible to know how many codes the NSA and GCHQ was stolen, but even if we rely on modest assumptions, the number is impressive, “says the site information.
In 2009, the NSA had already capabilities to” treat between 12 and 22 million codes per second “to then use them in case they need to eavesdrop or intercept emails, according to The Intercept.
Gemalto said in a statement taking “very seriously” the information on this site.
Each SIM card has encryption keys to encrypt communications with the operated telecommunications. Stopping a card codes is possible to reconstitute all communications
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