AURORAGOLD: How the NSA Gets Inside Every Cellphone Network in the World

The Intercept has discoveredan ambitious NSA operation called AURORAGOLD — which aims to tap every mobile phone connection in the populace .

The finding , discovered amongst an archive of stuff supplied by Edward Snowden , reveals that the NSA intercept G of emails commit between society in a bid to identify security system weakness in cellphone technology .

Further document revealthat the NSA has been working with that information to covertly bring out new defect into communication system , precisely so that they can be intercept in the hereafter . The obvious headache there is that purposefully introducing backdoors not only allow the NSA to snoop on whoever it chooses , but also makes those same people vulnerable to attacks by reprehensible hackers , too . Karsten Nohl , a surety research worker , hammers that point home to The Intercept :

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“ Even if you love the NSA and you say you have nothing to hide , you should be against a policy that introduces security vulnerability , because once NSA introduces a weakness , a vulnerability , it ’s not only the NSA that can exploit it . ”

The GSM Association — found in the UK but act with the likes of Microsoft , Facebook , AT&T , and Cisco — is named in the paper as one of the more high - profile victim of the email surveillance . But the result of the work are wide - reaching , and one map , shown below , break to what degree the NSA has its tentacles in the nomadic web of international territories . intelligibly , it has reach in nearly every country in the world , including the United Kingdom , Australia , New Zealand , Germany , and France — who would presumably count themselves as friend .

All told , the report establish for dour — if more and more predictable — reading , key out new insight into what progressively feels to be the pervasive surveillance norm . Goread it in full . [ The Intercept ]

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