American and British Spy Agencies Targeted In-Flight Mobile Phone Use

American and British Spy Agencies Targeted In-Flight Mobile Phone Use
▻https://theintercept.com/2016/12/07/american-and-british-spy-agencies-targeted-in-flight-mobile-phone-use

In the trove of documents provided by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden is a treasure. It begins with a riddle : “What do the President of Pakistan, a cigar smuggler, an arms dealer, a counterterrorism target, and a combatting proliferation target have in common ? They all used their everyday GSM phone during a flight.” This riddle appeared in 2010 in SIDtoday, the internal newsletter of the NSA’s Signals Intelligence Directorate, or SID, and it was classified “top (...)

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