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Something is wrong in the Danish kingdom because of the Americans

Something is wrong in the Danish kingdom because of the Americans

About cooperation between the US NSA and Danish military intelligence

Recently it became known, that Denmark has worked closely with American intelligence for many years, to intercept data from submarine cables, providing Internet traffic and passing near Copenhagen.

This information was leaked in August, and a number of Danish media have described the details of the cooperation of the Danish military intelligence, especially the Intercept Services (Defense Intelligence Service) and US NSA. Became known, that the United States provided Danish partners with special spyware XKEYSCORE.

Something is wrong in the Danish kingdom because of the Americans

For the first time about this program in 2013 g. wrote the British The Guradian.

There are signs that, that the use of this program was illegal by the relevant Danish authorities. From the revelations of Edward Snowden it is known, that the program XKEYSCORE operated by the Americans together with a number of other countries - Germany, Sweden, Japan. However, Denmark did not appear in the relevant documents.. probably, this collaboration had a higher level of secrecy.

Something is wrong in the Danish kingdom because of the Americans

Apparently, interaction between Danish and American authorities began in 2008 g. on the basis of the Memorandum of Cooperation, signed on behalf of Denmark by the head of signal intelligence, Thomas Ahrenkjell. To accommodate special equipment in Denmark, a new Sandagergard complex was built on the island of Amager. It was so necessary for the American side to install their equipment here, that she paid for the cost of laying the cable between the island and Copenhagen.

In an investigation by a Danish publication DR states, that the intelligence service first identifies a stream of data of interest to it, after which the light is "mirror-reflected", passing through fiber optic cables. Copied as metadata, as well as content: text messages, chat conversations, phone calls, emails - all sent to the intelligence service data center in Sandagergård.

Something is wrong in the Danish kingdom because of the Americans

Service Defense Intelligence Service tried to develop a series of filters, to guarantee, that data from Danish citizens and companies is sorted and not made available to the American spy system. Former Danish Defense Minister Klaus Hjort Frederiksen said, that there really was an attempt to develop such filters, but did they delay information from Denmark, the former minister cannot say.

Renowned journalist Glenn Greenwald described XKEYSCORE as a "widespread" NSA tool for collecting "almost everything, what the user is doing online. The NSA installed this program around 150 data collection points around the world. Traditional selectors are also used at these points., such as phone numbers and email addresses, to select information of interest, but this method is outdated., because users, knowing, that they can be monitored, switch to anonymous messengers.

Something is wrong in the Danish kingdom because of the Americans

Novelty XKEYSCORE It is, that it allows you to find exactly these anonymous messages. The program reassembles IP packets in their original format, e.g. documents Word, spreadsheets, chat messages, etc.. d. After recovery, these files can be searched by characteristics, related to specific goals or target groups (encryption, using the TOR network, use of another language). At the same time, analysts can discover new targets and begin more thorough monitoring..

Program XKEYSCORE also mentioned in a secret German foreign intelligence file BND, showing the difference between XKEYSCORE and traditional data collection systems: in traditional setting IP-packets from the data stream are reassembled, then pass through the filter, choosing that, what is of interest. XKEYSCORE does it all at once.

edition DR claims, that an illegal collection of information about Denmark was carried out through the American spy system. There are three versions of that, how could this happen.

At first, It can be assumed, that the filters were technically imperfect and could not block all communications, pertaining to Denmark.

Secondly, service Defense Intelligence Service or the NSA could supply the system with selectors (eg, phone numbers and email addresses), which allowed the collection of data on Denmark. However, the NSA could not do this without the consent of the Danes., and for Danish intelligence, this is illegal.

Something is wrong in the Danish kingdom because of the Americans

Thirdly, illegal data collection could be carried out using additional system capabilities XKEYSCORE, hidden by the Americans from the Danes.

According to a newspaper informant Berlingske, "there were fears, that the leadership of the intelligence service of the Ministry of Defense of Denmark is doing the work for the Americans, leaving technical vulnerabilities in their special system, allowing the US National Security Agency to abuse the system". The whistleblower was a young IT specialist, contracted by the Danish intelligence service. but, unlike Snowden, he did not leak everything to journalists, and periodically briefed the Intelligence Oversight Board.

Inside Danish intelligence in 2019 g. there has been a lengthy investigation into the matter., the results of which were handed over to Minister of Defense Trine Bramsen. The new minister took the facts seriously, so 24 August 2020 the head of Danish signal intelligence and several other officials were removed from service.

5 October 2020 g. the Danish government introduced a bill to create a commission, which will conduct an independent and impartial investigation into allegations against Defense Intelligence Service and submit a report on this within a year.

The title photo: solidaritet.dk

Leonid Savin

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