Les câbles sous-marins, clé de voûte de la cybersurveillance

“Bundesnachrictendienst (BND) and Spanish CESID jointly operated an undersea cable tapping station at Conil called Operation Delikatesse. The station tapped the cables linking Spain to the Canaries, other Mediterranean nations, Africa, and BND turned over operation of the station to CESID in1992 but like all these arrangements, German intelligence personnel likely remained for support.”

“NSA did the same with its Turkish SIGINT stations, turning over operation of Sinop on the Black Sea, for example, to Turkey’s MIT intelligence organization. The tapping facility, on ”Camino de los Militares” in Conil is near the Telefonica satellite ground station.”

Some of this activity was mentioned during the 2000 EP inquiry, but the specific contractual relationships with the NSA were not made clear.

▻http://www.privacysurgeon.org/blog/incision/former-nsa-contractor-warns-of-murky-interception-arrangements

L’interception à terre sur un goulet d’étranglement du réseau est trop tentante... Surtout en comparaison de la difficulté d’exécution d’une interception en mer : on a beaucoup parlé depuis 1999 des capacités du Jimmy Carter mais en pratique et malgré les rumeurs persistantes mettant un certain nombre de coupures de câbles sous-marins sur le dos de tentatives ratées de pose d’équipements d’interception, j’ai du mal à imaginer que cette technique est exploitable à des coûts cohérents avec le but recherché.

Quelques articles à ce sujet :
▻http://web.archive.org/web/20070420221651/http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-529826.html?legacy=zdnn
▻http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/ielx5/6/21038/975021/975021.html
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/20/politics/20submarine.html

Tiens, ça vient de sortir aujourd’hui - fort à propos pour cette conversation:
►http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/exclusive-uks-secret-mideast-internet-surveillance-base-is-revealed-i

“Britain runs a secret internet-monitoring station in the Middle East to intercept and process vast quantities of emails, telephone calls and web traffic on behalf of Western intelligence agencies, The Independent has learnt.

The station is able to tap into and extract data from the underwater fibre-optic cables passing through the region”

“The Middle East installation is regarded as particularly valuable by the British and Americans because it can access submarine cables passing through the region. All of the messages and data passed back and forth on the cables is copied into giant computer storage “buffers” and then sifted for data of special interest”

Pas de raison que cette station soit la seule et qu’elle ne soit pas construite sur le modèle de ses sœurs telle que celle de Bude...

#câbles_sous-marins