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BBC report alleges UK tapped all communications to Ireland
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Fri Jul 16 10:08:29 1999
To: cryptography@c2.net
Reply-To: perry@piermont.com
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Date: 16 Jul 1999 09:55:02 -0400
Not quite cryptography, but it is SIGINT.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk_politics/newsid_395000/395843.stm
First paragraphs (From the BBC):
Headline: UK 'monitored Irish phone calls'
Subhead: The messages were scanned for key words
The UK Government tapped all telephone messages between Britain
and Ireland during the past 10 years, it has been alleged.
Channel 4 News said a tower in Capenhurst, Cheshire, was used to
intercept all telephone signals between Ireland and the UK from 1989
to when it closed down earlier this year.
The 13-storey windowless tower used electronic equipment to collect
and store all faxes, e-mails, telexes and data communications, the
programme said. Their contents were then allegedly scanned for key
words and subjects of interests.
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