Our GCSB has “has been rebuked for hosting a foreign agency’s spy
operation for several years without telling its minister, and without
knowing whether doing so was contributing to military strikes
overseas.” <https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/improper-nz-spy-agency-slammed-for-hosting-foreign-spying-without-telling-minister-or-cabinet/7SQYOG55QNHIXOXB2GFPVJVC5U/>.

Which country the foreign spooks were from is classified, but, let’s
face it, only the US would have the chutzpah.

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On Thu, 21 Mar 2024 00:46:18 -0000 (UTC), I wrote:

Our GCSB has “has been rebuked for hosting a foreign agency’s spy operation for several years ...

More information in this evening’s news. There was some mention of “equipment”, which sounds to me like signal/data/traffic analysis systems that were plugged into the GCSB’s raw data-gathering feeds. It was
uncovered by higher-ups (yup, the agents involved hadn’t even informed
their higher-ups) in 2020, and coincidentally (?), it failed around that
time.

Coincidentally?? Or did somebody back at Fort Meade send a self-destruct
signal when word came that they’d been rumbled?

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On Thu, 21 Mar 2024 06:30:13 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro
<ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On Thu, 21 Mar 2024 00:46:18 -0000 (UTC), I wrote:

Our GCSB has �has been rebuked for hosting a foreign agency�s spy
operation for several years ...

More information in this evening�s news.

You watch the news?

That explains a lot.

Bill.

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On Fri, 22 Mar 2024 04:30:25 +1300, BR <blah@blah.blah> wrote:

On Thu, 21 Mar 2024 06:30:13 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro ><ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On Thu, 21 Mar 2024 00:46:18 -0000 (UTC), I wrote:

Our GCSB has �has been rebuked for hosting a foreign agency�s spy
operation for several years ...

More information in this evening�s news.

You watch the news?

That explains a lot.

Bill.

Good thing he does then as otherwise you may have been unaware of the
issue. On the other hand, some people don't deal well with facts.

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On Thu, 21 Mar 2024 00:46:18 -0000 (UTC), I wrote:

Our GCSB has “has been rebuked for hosting a foreign agency’s spy operation for several years without telling its minister, and without
knowing whether doing so was contributing to military strikes overseas.”

More info: <https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/edward-snowden-leaked-papers-reveal-rogue-spying-tool-found-in-gcsb-was-likely-used-to-hunt-war-on-terror-targets-and-spy-on-china/SFXKM3PPZFEXTOE2NZIBPKWY7A/>.
It was indeed an NSA tool. Seems my earlier guess that it was
auto-destructed after being discovered was wrong: it was the equipment malfunction that led to it being discovered. Sending out rubbish data
and disrupting the GCSB network, perhaps? Or something as simple as
shorting and blowing a fuse?

The capacity to identify VSAT installations is interesting, though. Is
that done in coordination with some of those classified satellites
that have been launched?

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