[telecom] NSA routinely tapped in-flight Internet, intercepted exported routers

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NSA routinely tapped in-flight Internet, intercepted exported routers

Greenwald book provides more data on NSA's "Homing Pigeon," other surveillance.

by Sean Gallagher May 13 2014 Ars Technica

In his new book No Place to Hide, Glenn Greenwald revealed a number of additional details on the "craft" and tools used by the NSA and its British counterpart, the GCHQ. While many of the capabilities and activities Greenwald details in the book were previously published in reports drawing from Edward Snowden's vast haul of NSA documents, a number of new pieces of information have come to light-including the NSA's and GCHQ's efforts to use airlines' in-flight data service to track and surveil targeted passengers in real time.

The systems-codenamed "Homing Pigeon" by the NSA and "Thieving Magpie" by the GCHQ-allowed the agencies to track which aircraft individuals under surveillance boarded based on their phone data.

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