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[2006] Security
Experts' 'Suicides' Called Into Question -- European Media Probe Dangers of
Secret Surveillance Systems in March of 2005, Costas Tsalikidis, a 38-year-old
software engineer for Vodaphone in
Greece had just discovered a highly
sophisticated bug embedded in the
company's mobile network. The spyware
eavesdropped on the prime minister's and
other top officials' cell phone calls;
it even monitored the car phone of
Greece's secret service chief. Others
bugged included civil rights activists,
the head of Greece's "Stop the War"
coalition, journalists and Arab
businessmen based in Athens. All the
wiretapping began about two months
before the Olympics were hosted by
Greece in August 2004, according to a
subsequent investigation by the Greek
authorities.
Tsalikidis, according to friends and
family, was excited about his work and
was looking forward to marrying his
longtime girlfriend. But on March 9,
2005, his elderly mother found him hanging from a white rope tied to pipes
outside of his apartment bathroom. His limp feet dangled a mere three inches
above the floor. His death was ruled a suicide.
The next day, Vodaphone's top executive
in Greece reported to the prime minister
that unknown outsiders had illicitly
eavesdropped on top government
officials. Before making his report,
however, the CEO had the spyware
destroyed, even though this destroyed
the evidence as well.
-- the Vodaphone eavesdropping was
transmitted in real time via four
antennae located near the U.S. embassy
in Athens, according to an 11-month
Greek government investigation. Some of
these transmissions were sent to a phone
in Laurel, Md., near America's National
Security Agency.
-- according to Ta Nea, a Greek
newspaper, Vodaphone's CEO privately
told the Greek government that the
bugging culprits were "U.S. agents."
Because Greece's prime minister feared
domestic protests and a diplomatic war
with the United States, he ordered the
Vodafone CEO to withhold this conclusion
from his own authorities investigating the case
[2005] QUESTIONS ASKED OVER LABOUR'S `SECRET’ MEETINGS WITH BIG BUSINESS LEADERS Details of high-level meetings between the prime Minister and top executives of Britain's most powerful companies will remain secret, the government has ruled, despite widespread concern about big business' privileged access to senior politicians.....The documents released reveal that Blair has met with the MCG every year since he was elected in 1997. Participants at the last meeting, in October 2004, included top executives from HSBC, Vodafone, Unilever, BP, the drinks giant Diageo, cigarette manufacturer British American Tobacco, and mining company Rio Tinto.
Microwaving children
Orange are once again riding roughshod over the precautionary principle with
regard to children with their plans to appeal a decision not to let them place a
mast next to the playing fields of Oakview School in Loughton. After a long campaign
02 and Vodaphone were ordered to remove a overbearing mast in Gateshead last
year, yet to the astonishment of residents have now made a planning application
to restore it. MAST SANITY NEWSLETTER
JUNE/JULY 2008