[Infowarrior] - Spying: How Orange and intelligence services cooperate

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Spying: How Orange and intelligence services cooperate

LE MONDE | 03/20/2014 at 11:25 • Updated 21/03/2014 at 7:44 | By Jacques Follorou

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We often learn more things about ourselves by people who do not belong to your family . The British, a little unwillingly, we just inform on highly confidential relationship between services french secrets, the Directorate General for External Security (DGSE) and the incumbent telecommunications operator France Telecom, which took the name d ' Orange in February 2012.

According to an internal document of the British secret service technical (GCHQ), the equivalent of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), the DGSE has a close cooperation with "a French telecommunications operator." The length of their relationship, the description of the specific expertise of the company as well as the investigation of the World used to conclude that it is France Telecom- Orange .

According to GCHQ, the DGSE and the French incumbent work together to improve the national interception networks communication skills and work together to break the encryption of data flowing through the network. France Telecom is a major player in the surveillance system in France.

DATA COLLECTION FREE OF CONTROL

This note, taken from the archives of the NSA by her ex-consultant Edward Snowden, ensures that the relationship between the French DGSE and the operator is a major advantage over its Western counterparts. One of the strengths of the DGSE lies in the fact that not only the permissions granted by the legislature to access customer data from France Telecom- Orange .  It has especially without the knowledge of control, a free and access total to networks and data flow passing through.

This free collection of control, through the French operator on massive data concerning both French and foreigners. It is used by the DGSE, which puts it at the disposal of all French intelligence agencies to track the sharing of technical information and its database. These data are also shared with foreign allies such as GCHQ. Finally, the French operator develops, in partnership with the DGSE, research in cryptology.

At the highest level of the State, in France, we refuse to comment, but it tells the world that if the public authority became a minority (27%) in the capital of France Telecom, the oldest French operator still considered "a public service delegation." The expertise of the company, which was first administration, contributes in an essential way, "as now" on homeland security and autonomy of decision of the French leaders.

"The relationship between France Telecom and the DGSE is not the same as that found in the Prism NSA program, which has contractual relationships with Internet giants, says a former chief of French intelligence service. In France is consubstantial. "There is no formalization of this cooperation between the DGSE and France Telecom-Orange. It is worn by persons authorized secret- defense within the company, and perpetuated for at least thirty years by engineers who commute between the two institutions.

"INTERNAL USE AND UNOFFICIAL"

Daily in the company, this link is managed by a very small number of people in three services. Management networks in the first place, manages, including the so-called "landing" stations, where Telecom-Orange submarine cables affecting France France berth and transit of the massive flows of data collected. Presorting can easily be carried out in different countries and regions of origin, and everything is stored in the premises of the DGSE.

"The mass transit data is stored for internal and unofficial usage, details a frame attached to the management of networks. But the focal point is the access provider, like that, you cross traffic of the data and the identity of those who exchange. It is for this reason that the DGSE is in contact with all French operators. "

DGSE also relies on international direction of the operator, which operates subsidiaries mobile abroad. Orange plays in some cases a strategic role. He has accompanied the French military operations in Mali and the Central African Republic . Finally, security management, guarded ancient art direction of the DGSE hunting is the main interlocutor of the secret services. It ensures, with Orange Business Services, on issues of data protection and decryption.

Asked the boss of Orange, Stéphane Richard, stated that "persons authorized secret defense may have to manage within the company, the relationship with the State services including access to networks, but they do not have to let me see . All this is done under the responsibility of public authorities within a legal framework. " DGSE has refused to comment.


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