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the latest documents reveal the actual names of the cables the NSA and GCHQ had access to as of 2009 as well as their “egress” speed—the volume of data that the agencies could pull from the cables.
...the latest documents reveal the actual names of the cables the NSA and GCHQ had access to as of 2009 as well as their “egress” speed—the volume of data that the agencies could pull from the cables...

The news Cable & Wireless has acquired Columbus has generated a lot of discussion across the Caribbean. How it translates in Barbados – if the Fair Training Commission agrees – the local Internet/broadband market will revert to a monopoly with a merger of LIME and FLOW. Barbadian consumers were promised competition in a deregulated telecommunications market, now we have gone full circle. One wonders therefore what is the purpose of the Fair Trading Commission.

There is another reason to be sceptical of Cable & Wireless.

According to a report in the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, the telecommunications company Cable & Wireless—now a subsidiary of Vodafone—“actively shaped and provided the most data to GCHQ surveillance programs and received millions of pounds in compensation.”

The relationship was so extensive that a GCHQ employee was assigned to work full time at Cable & Wireless (referred to by the code name “Gerontic” in NSA documents) to manage cable-tap projects in February of 2009. By July of 2009, Cable & Wireless provided access to 29 out of the 63 cables on the list, accounting for nearly 70 percent of the data capacity available to surveillance programs…

It’s not clear from the documents whether any of the 63 cable taps on the GCHQ list are NSA-provided, though a number of them have US landfalls—including Pacific cables connecting from the US to Japan and China and a number of cables serving the Caribbean, South, and Central America.

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19 responses to “Cable & Wireless Tied to Government Surveillance Program”

  1. pieceuhderockyeahright Avatar
    pieceuhderockyeahright

    Signal Intelligence forms a critical part of military preparedness in today’s world of wars and rumors of wars

    This activity is not new for C&W they have been the backbone of the British intelligence gathering spectrum for years so is Siemens, Alcatel and Hauwei.

    When Hants told Smooth Chocolate the other day not to use the words Verbal Jihadist in her moniker he spoke to the monitoring that all of the Internet now finds itself subject to and how specific terms from a specific jurisdiction will automatically raise a flag

    De ole man got he own Equivalent to de The Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) here at he house.

    Dem is de British intelligence and security organisation responsible for providing signals intelligence (SIGINT) and information assurance to the British government and armed forces.

    De one dat heah by me is de BHHC de Bulbados Holy Hands Crew who only Saturday past find out dat de ole man passing intelligence secrets bout de Pastor and de rest uh dem heah pun BU.

    It was after de Donkey Exchange when I did collapse laughing when brother GP pass some enlightening info bot a certain party who will remain nameless.

    De House is in a veritable Cold War status causing udder dan ringing de bell to announce meals it like if a wall get build up in de house.

    We isn’t reach glasnost yet doah and it look like we going have winter heah at we house in Bulbados…many thanks to you know who..heheheh

  2. David Avatar
    David

    The average Joe is clueless to how the powers manage the globe. It is why mergers and approvals are given against the grain of commonsense.

  3. Betty Avatar
    Betty

    Barbados Police conspiracy to pervert the course of justice (Archives)

    VICTOR “PELE”PARRIS was murdered at Atlantic Shores on May 16, 1978 by his lover Hyacinth Goring … – And police officers, Inspector Byron Clarke, Sargeant David Callender and Constable Victor Mason, along with Scofield Smith and his wife Pauline, conspired to pervert the course of justice …

    Those were two of the findings of the Malone Commission of Enquiry into unsolved murders whose 231-page report was laid before the House of Assembly yesterday by Deputy Prime Minister Bernard St John.

    The commission cost the Government $183 000. In its findings, concerning the death of Parris, the commissioners concluded that he was shot in the cul-de-sac at Atlantic Shores by Goring, but admitted they did not know what the motive was. However, they speculated it might have arisen out of a sexual affair.

    They thought that Parris names Goring as the person who had shot him and that Callender and Mason had realised he had done so. For this reason, the commissioners felt, the evidence of the hospital staff had been suppressed.

    They could not say what motive or motives drove Clarke, Callender and Mason to cover up for Goring, but the commissioners said that they were satisfied that the motive was not political. They were also satisfied that the car seen by the couple, who gave Goring a lift from the scene, to the home of the Smiths, Everest McComie and Heather Williams, and which has not been traced, was not the get-away car of a gunman.

    Based on their findings, the commissioners advocated the prosecution of Hyacinth Goring for the murder of Parris, and Clarke, Callender, Mason, Scofield Smith and Pauline Smith for conspiracy to pervert the course of public justice.

    This article was published November 26, 1980. – See more at: http://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/59761/archives-guilty-goring#sthash.nEurShlk.dpuf

  4. David Avatar
    David

    BU continues to wait on revelations about wiretapping alleged to have occurred in Barbados.

  5. Hants Avatar
    Hants

  6. are-we-there-yet Avatar
    are-we-there-yet

    Hants;
    Thanks! I’d forgotten how good that song was.

    Wonder when a modern calypsonian will sing about our current goings-ons?

    But perhaps current happenings haven’t yet risen to the level of a true-true murder and the high intrigue involving the Police force, some Politicians and the heights of the Judiciary. Remember Yotanka Tatanka’s book?

    But Wait! our knowledgeable BU posters like PUDRYR might tell us that the current rumours of Official Phone tapping only lack a dead body for full comparison with the Pele case and that there is a potential here for making the Pele case look like a walk in the park.

    The other ingredients are rumouredly there in full force.

    Uh Lie, PUDRYR?

  7. pieceuhderockyeahright Avatar
    pieceuhderockyeahright

    @ Are-We-There-Yet

    Unna does try to get de ole man in a lot uh trouble

    Already de ole man is in de bad books uh de Madam concerning he comments bout de Pastor and dem Holy Hands Washed in de Blood Saints.

    By now wunna should know dat I is like AC # 1 & 2

    Two peoples dat does write under the same pseudonym one does write sense and de next one, well, well.. (not the blogger)

    When wunna see de rantings and de ravings dat is me en when wunna see de technologically savvy submissions dat is de ** son dat does work as a big up ** at dat financial institution **

    De onliest dead body dat associate with wire tapping in Bulbados is dat fellow RBPF Inspector Anderson Bowen who passed away in 2013 post lodging a matter n de courts uh Barbados about de former Commissioner uh Police bout wiretapping

    One uh de grandson’s in ** now get his MOSQ as an EOD specialist, he now trained to blow up tings dem

    Sadly enough we have become purveyors of war and suppliers of cannon fodder

  8. Pat Avatar
    Pat

    @Piece

    Your grandson must be in the US army. He must have lots of years as an ordnance officer and specialist training to get that quaification. he is trained to blow up things and a former nephew by marriage was trained to shoot people on the move from 3 kilometers away. Why, they even gave him some medals for this and other shooting heroics.

    Why, after he retired, they enticed him back to go to the Mohave and train the soldiers heading to Iraq and Afghanistan.

  9. old onion bags Avatar
    old onion bags

    @ David

    Check the confidential drop box……

  10. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    Oh skikes,

    A CHRIST CHURCH MAN has been charged with malicious communication regarding comments made about MP Michael Lashley on social media.
    Related articles
    NETBALL RESULTS: Sir Roy Trotman…
    NATION newscast September 26, 2014…
    NATION newscast September 25, 2014…
    And police are warning residents of Barbados not to use this platform to damage people’s reputations as it is a criminal offence.
    – See more at: http://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/59881/charged-misuse-social-media#sthash.1LEQCHor.dpuf

  11. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    Sorry for the poor editing.

  12. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    So what is it that Omar Shawn Watson of Maxwell, Christ Chris is alleged to have said about the Minister?

    The same thing that other people say aboth other Ministers everyday?

  13. David Avatar
    David

    fyi…the Court’s wensite was hacked today.

  14. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    Attacks KO Toronto police, Ottawa police websites
    A hacker claiming ties to the group Anonymous took responsibility saying the action was “retaliation” because “police have framed an innocent youth.”

  15. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    Dear David: Please bring me up to date. Were any of these people

    “Based on their findings, the commissioners advocated the prosecution of Hyacinth Goring for the murder of Parris, and Clarke, Callender, Mason, Scofield Smith and Pauline Smith for conspiracy to pervert the course of public justice. – See more at: ttp://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/59761/archives-guilty-goring#sthash.nEurShlk.YpHMlaQA.dpuf”

    ever prosecuted. And if not why not? And what has become of them now? Have they died of old age? Have they migrated?

  16. Colonel Buggy Avatar
    Colonel Buggy

    @Simple Simon
    And if not why not? And what has become of them now? Have they died of old age? Have they migrated
    …………………………………………………………………………………
    Probably like the Simmons guy who was whisked out of the island before charges were brought against him, they all probably visit Barbados,from time to time without fear of being detained,as those in authority will probably echo the words of Sir Don calypso, “not me and dat boa- zie !”

  17. David Avatar
    David

    @Simple Simon

    Extracted from Angela Cole’s book the Khaki Boys.

    https://barbadosunderground.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/pele1.pdf

  18. pieceuhderockyeahright Avatar
    pieceuhderockyeahright

    @david[BU]

    That excerpt from the Khaki Boys makes for some interesting reading.

    Life is stranger than fiction

  19. David Avatar
    David

    When Simple acknowledges pickup let us delete it 🙂

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