{"id":2097,"date":"2013-06-17T12:00:17","date_gmt":"2013-06-17T12:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/?p=2097"},"modified":"2013-06-17T12:00:17","modified_gmt":"2013-06-17T12:00:17","slug":"new-snowden-leak-how-uk-spies-attacked-delegations-to-the-2009-g20-boing-boing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/17\/new-snowden-leak-how-uk-spies-attacked-delegations-to-the-2009-g20-boing-boing\/","title":{"rendered":"New Snowden leak: How UK spies attacked delegations to the 2009 G20 &#8211; Boing Boing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Oh hey look, it&#8217;s another intelligence leak! This one&#8217;s actually great news &#8212; if world leaders are being spied on, maybe something&#8217;ll actually get done about it :). -egg]<\/p>\n<p>On the eve of the G8 summit (taking place in a specially prepared Potemkin village in N. Ireland), the Guardian has published another Edward Snowden leak, this one describing how the UK spying agency GCHQ aggressively spied upon delegates to the G20 summit in 2009. According to the documents, UK spies attacked foreign delegates by &#8220;reading their email before they do&#8221; intercepting their BlackBerry messages and calls in real-time; capturing logins at special Internet cafes so as to spy on delegations after the event; getting NSA reports on attempts to crack Russian PM Dmitry Medvedev&#8217;s satellite calls; and continuously logging and analyzing who was calling whom.<\/p>\n<p>The report suggests that British delegation was briefed throughout, and that the operation was &#8220;sanctioned in principle at a senior level in the government of the then prime minister, Gordon Brown.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2013\/06\/16\/snowden-leak-how-uk-spies-att.html\">Snowden leak: How UK spies attacked delegations to the 2009 G20 &#8211; Boing Boing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Oh hey look, it&#8217;s another intelligence leak! This one&#8217;s actually great news &#8212; if world leaders are being spied on, maybe something&#8217;ll actually get done about it :). -egg] On the eve of the G8 summit (taking place in a specially prepared Potemkin village in N. Ireland), the Guardian has published another Edward Snowden leak, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-xP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}