[kictanet] Latest Snowden leak claims NSA bugged ALL mobile calls in the Bahamas, Kenya Included

[S.M. Muraya]

Note, other statements in the report including the fact the system is
outsourced, to a US homegrown + US (not Mauritius) registered firm...

"...A 2012 memo from an official in the NSA's International Crime &
Narcotics division claims that SOMALGET has already been useful in tracking
down drug smugglers and "special-interest alien smugglers."

With the right data warehousing and server support, the system is capable
of storing five billion "call events", the memo says.

Another memo states that the data processing for such information has been
outsourced to US firm General Dynamics, which signed an eight-year, $51m
contract with the NSA for the job. The company declined to comment on the
issue and referred media questions to the NSA."

Regards

Murigi / Stanley Muraya
On May 22, 2014 9:03 AM, "Gideon via kictanet" <
kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

> Interesting reports
>
> The SOMALGET system is part of a larger telephone-tapping system developed
> by the NSA dubbed MYSTIC. The newly leaked documents show MYSTIC is active
> in others countries – including Mexico, Kenya, and the Philippines – but
> that in those cases it only collects phone metadata.
>
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/05/19/latest_snowden_leak_claims_nsa_bugged_all_mobile_calls_in_the_bahamas/
>
> Regards
> Gideon Rop
> DotCOnnectAfrica
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