那么,这些间谍到底做了什么?格林沃德在The Intercept的同事记者Jeremy Scahill这样说:
The NSA & GCHQ covertly stole millions of encryption keys used to protect your mobile phone communications: http://t.co/dVjLuxl4k3
— jeremy scahill (@jeremyscahill) February 19, 2015
NSA和GCHQ秘密窃取了几百万个用于保护你的手机信息的密钥:interc.pt/1COE51C
It must be asked again, now that we know GCHQ/NSA have basically pwned everything: Why do we still have crime? How is ISIS even a thing?
— Anonymous (@AnonyOps) February 20, 2015
我们必须要问了,既然GCHQ/NSA几乎知道了所有的事情:现在世界上怎么还有犯罪?伊斯兰国怎么还这么嚣张?
隐私国际(Privacy International)的Eric King也开玩笑:
Who thinks it's a good idea to give Cameron a “golden key”, now we've learned spies have been able to steal millions of them in the past.
— Eric King (@e3i5) February 20, 2015
现在我们知道了间谍们已经偷了几百万个「钥匙」,谁还觉得给卡梅伦一个「金钥匙」是一个好主意?
这则新闻所带来的另一个重要的问题是这些间谍行为的受害者是谁。据The Intercept所说,Gemalto的客户有全世界的450多家无线通信公司,包括美国的AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon和Sprint.
United Kingdom is a European Union member state. It's time the Commission sanctions the British for #GCHQ hacking of other member states.
— Claudio (@botherder) February 20, 2015
英国是欧盟成员国。GCHQ监视其他欧盟成员国,现在是欧盟委员会该制裁英国人的时候了。
Maher Arar是一个叙利亚裔的加拿大人,他曾经被美国引渡回叙利亚并在被拘捕时遭到虐待。他在Twitter写到:
Obama isn't at war w/ Islam but the target of the NSA malware in the US & UK were all Islamic activists & scholars: http://t.co/eSypJtGYKe
— Maher Arar (@ArarMaher) February 19, 2015
欧巴马没有和伊斯兰开战,但是NSA恶意软件的目标却都是美国和英国的伊斯兰活跃人士和学者。: ow.ly/Jkf62
被卷入这次曝光漩涡中心的Gemalto公司还没有做出任何响应。但是这家公司的一段影片却表现了他们的善意:
*值得一提的是,如果电话、简讯和其他通讯被其他工具(例如RedPhone和ChatSecure)所保护,NSA和GCHQ并不能通过这个密钥来窃取这些信息。如果希望更了解信息安全,可以看看Surveillance Self-Defense和Security in a Box。