In the latest leak from whistleblower Edward Snowden is mentioned for the first time data network to a Norwegian company as a possible overvåkningsmål.
There is a Norwegian IP address that belongs to the Stavanger-based Harris Norway used as an example of overvåkningsmål, writes Today’s Business.
If the information is correct, the American intelligence community NSA and its closest partners have acquired solid overview of the company’s computer network, the newspaper said.
company owned by US Harris Corporation and deliver communications technology to the Norwegian oil and gas industry. According to the company itself, they are the largest provider of its kind in the Norwegian market.
In addition to the IP address also emphasized equipment in its network as examples of monitoring possibilities NSA and its partners claimed to have.
It was the German news magazine Der Spiegel that weekend let out 68 new pages of leaks from Edward Snowden on their websites. The new document is about a monitoring system called Treasure Map whose slogan is “Identify the internet – any device, anywhere, all the time.”
Treasure Map is designed as an interactive real-time map of the internet where purpose is to map the internet so that intelligence services can identify individual machines – the routers that pass data streams. One of the routers that are mentioned as examples of goals in Treasure Map presentation is called a switch – a network component that controls the data traffic between different nodes in a network – belonging Harris Norway.
Neither the NSA or manager Sveinung Lapin Harris Norway would like to comment on the information to the newspaper. (© NTB)
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