Monthly Archives: February 2018

Will there ever be justice for the Belgacom hack?

The Intercept recently wrote about how UK spies hacked a European ally and got away with it. However, the UK’s sigint agency GCHQ were obviously not hacking Belgacom on their own. Information is also available that the Swedish sigint agency FRA participated in similar type of activity. Both GCHQ and FRA are believed to participate in what is sometimes called the “European bazaar“, said to be run by the NSA in the USA to spy on EU citizens.

According to Swedish Television’s Uppdrag Granskning (link to content in Swedish), it appears that FRA participates in Quantum, which means NSA’s secret hacking programs, at least in April 2013. Note the timing with the Belgacom hack. In the summer of 2013 European investigators were looking into this unprecedented breach of Belgium’s telecommunications infrastructure. Ryan Gallagher writes more on his blog about how the NSA’s goal was to transition activities, that may be illegal in the UK, to the Swedish partner.

Changing of European laws to allow mass surveillance “for our security” has obviously also opened the door for critical infrastructure to be undermined.

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Illustration by Carlos Latuff, available on Wikimedia Commons

Former Swedish policeman claims evidence was forged by the police

In 1989, Christer Pettersson was first convicted and later acquitted by a higher court for the murder of Olof Palme. Now a former Swedish policeman claims evidence was forged by the police in the case against Christer Pettersson (links to texts in Swedish). And a key witness who tried to save Palme’s life claims she was later contacted by a man in military uniform, telling her that some things should not be made known. These are only the latest indications of many, all pointing to that Swedish authorities have probably been working to cover-up the murder by framing someone innocent, rather than solving it. In has been known for many years that a group of leading policemen hated Palme and were right-wing extremists. Some policemen involved in the so-called “baseball gang” have made a career, despite (or because of) suspicions that they have been involved in serious crime.