Was macht man, wenn 1em binnen 2er Jahre fast der gesamte botschaftsgestützte Spionageapparat in Westeuropa zerschlagen wurde?
Quer durch Europa wurden in mehreren Tranchen um die 700 Botschaftsangestellte russischer Nationalität zu personae non gratae erklärt. Bulgarien 70, DE 100+, 4 von 5 Generalkonsulaten wurden zugedreht & c. #Russki#SIGINT Bild der Verwüstung, Ex-Generalkonsulat Bonn
"Seit dem Überfall auf die Ukraine wurden 110 in Österreich akkreditierte Personen durch Russland abgemeldet, 80 Personen rückten nach, in beiden Fällen betraf das etwa zu gleichen Teilen diplomatisches wie technisch-administratives Personal. Binnen zweier Jahre wurde also mehr als ein Drittel des in Österreich akkreditierten Personals der Russischen Föderation ausgetauscht
Eine Fluktuation solchen Ausmaßes in so kurzer Zeit...
"....ist ungewöhnlich und ein klares Anzeichen dafür, dass Russland seinen Spionageapparat in Europa reorganisiert beziehungsweise völlig neu aufstellen muss – denn nach dem Überfall auf die Ukraine hatten die EU-Staaten und Großbritannien einen akkordierten Schlag gegen russische Agenten geführt, die unter diplomatischer Tarnung agierten."
No und wo wird der Spionageapparat wohl neu aufgebaut?
All das sind klare Indizien dafür, dass diese fundamentale Reorganisation der russischen Spionage rund um Wien und Budapest bzw. Debrecen passiert. Im gesamten EU-Raum sind nur noch diese Standorte weiterhin voll funktionsfähig, dazu kommen noch die beiden Botschaften in Genf und Bern mit stattlichen 220 Akkreditierten. Wie in Ungarn wurden auch in der Schweiz keine russischen Staatsangehörigen ausgewiesen.
🧵 Weil sonst nix los ist, hier ist ein bisserl #SIGINT Spaß von der Nomen Nescio Partie.
Wir testen grad paar so kleine RTL SDRs für #Russki#SIGINT 2.0 an Discones
No und bei der Testerei simma gleich amal über den TETRA-Funk der Kyberei drübergestolpert.
Sie tun eh brav verschlüsseln. Wurde 1e Stund lang überprüft, hört sich ganz charmant an, das Geflüster
Auch im local #SIGINT simma mit der Testerei schon weiter gekommen. Jetzt wird nur mehr Celsius gesprochen & wie man sieht, melden sich auch Autos rein =;)
Ab & zu berichtet auch einer der Traktoren seine aktuelle Motortemperatur.
Weird things are happening in the #hamradio and #osint communities these days - a new channel marker suddenly surfaced and this one is like none before: it starts at 5MHz and then repeats its short beeps (pulses, actually) every 400kHz until 30.2MHz, exactly 64 carriers, with the same signal, perfectly synced, it would seem.
So far its origin is unknown and it’s purpose and application is also very much unknown 🙂
It’s been heard all over the world, you can try it yourself with one of the many online #kiwisdr receivers 🙂
5 December 1968: The HYDRA transatlantic radio link for SIGINT (and diplomatic) communications, first established for US–Canadian–UK SIGINT traffic during the Second World War, is deactivated, having been replaced by undersea cable links.
13 December 2001: CSE is exempted from s.9(1)(c) of the Radiocommunication Act so it can legally decrypt encrypted subscription programming not available in Canada.
14 December 2011: CSE and CSIS sign a general framework memorandum of understanding on "ongoing cooperation on information and intelligence collection, information sharing and operational support".
15 December 1982: A memo on the government's planned CSIS Act lists "electronic surveillance and surreptitious entry" used against foreign intelligence targets in Canada as CSIS "techniques which CSE considers necessary for its purposes".
16 December 1944: The XU Committee is asked to decide future XU tasks, including those for the section working on the Japanese military: "Should we receive another assignment from Washington, presumably we would work on it, but the alternatives must be considered".
17 December 1987: External Affairs notes that CSE participation in the ECHELON satellite monitoring program "has been stopped by a legal opinion from Justice which states that such collection activity would be, if not illegal, at least 'imprudent'." (In the end, the program goes ahead.)
18 December 2001: The Anti-Terrorism Act (Bill C-36) receives Royal Assent, giving CSE a statutory mandate for the first time and enabling the agency to collect private communications incidentally when operating under ministerial authorization.
19 December 2021: NSIRA Chair Marie Deschamps meets with the Minister of National Defence to discuss NSIRA’s relationship with CSE: "Difficulties in obtaining timely access to information, the inability to independently verify the veracity and completeness of the information provided, and a larger culture of resisting and impeding the efficient progress of review activities directly impact NSIRA’s ability to fulfill the government’s mandate in regards to CSE."
20 December 2004: CANSLO/W Michael Doucet, CSE's senior liaison officer at NSA, writes that he's "working with CSE HQ to develop a partnership framework which will entrench a corporate culture of always seeking opportunities to make valuable, tangible contributions to NSA."
21 December 1941: His initial contract with the Examination Unit having expired, Herbert Yardley offers his consulting services to the Canadian Army as "the only white man who is thoroughly conversant with every type of Japanese Battle Communications."
22 December 1994: CSE Chief Stewart Woolner proposes that efficiencies and resource savings could result if the intercept service, the Canadian Forces Supplementary Radio System, were brought under "closer and more direct CSE management." The CFSRS interprets the proposal as a resource grab.
23 December 1941: Lester Pearson comments on intercepted Japanese telegrams that show pre-Pearl Harbor plans to repatriate their diplomats. If they had been received and decrypted by the XU earlier, Pearson states, the messages would have been "a clear indication that something was going to happen."
24 December 1941: The UK asks Canada to intercept Japanese communications with their agents in the Western Hemisphere as a "first priority", promising "any help which the United Kingdom authorities can give in regard to Japanese technique or other matters".
25 December 1949: "The last TYPEX [cipher machine] message received at CBNRC was deciphered at the Guigues Street location in December 1949, and contained Christmas Greetings from the Director and Staff of GCHQ."
27 December 1945: Col. Pat Bayley advises External Affairs that Canada should combine its cryptanalytic and code-making activities in a single organization, "since nothing [is] more dangerous than the making of cyphers by persons with no knowledge of the methods employed in breaking them."
28 December 1995: The New York Times consults the man on the street concerning recent CSE activities: "'I think they're overstepping their authority,' [Bill Seward, 50, the mechanic at Petro-Canada's Hoggs Back Service Center] said".
29 December 1945: Top officials from External Affairs, National Defence and the National Research Council meet and confirm that Canada should create a peacetime civilian SIGINT agency.