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(Updated: December 3, 2016) Over the past few years we learned a lot about Germany's foreign intelligence service BND , although not from leaks, but from the public hearings of the parliamentary commission that investigates NSA spying operations and its cooperation with German agencies. Recently however a secret government report was leaked to German media, which not only identifies violations of the data protection act but also reveals the codenames for several BND systems and the fact that BND uses the American XKEYSCORE system not only for analysis, but also for collection purposes. Here, the new information from the secret report is combined with things we know from earlier sources and reportings. - A secret report - The SUSLAG liaison office - Selectors provided by NSA: TND and SCRABBLE       - BND's selector database: PBDB - Operations SMARAGD and ZABBO - Metadata analysis: VERAS - Analysis and collection: XKEYSCORE - Integrated analysis: MIRA 4 - Legal d...

(Last edited: November 23, 2015) Almost unnoticed, the Austrian member of parliament Peter Pilz recently disclosed new information about operation Eikonal, under which NSA and BND cooperated in tapping some fiber-optic cables at a switching center of Deutsche Telekom in Frankfurt, Germany. As part of the NSA umbrella program RAMPART-A , Eikonal was set up to gather intelligence about targets from Russia, the Middle East and North-Africa. Because the cables that were tapped came also from countries like Austria, Switzerland, France, Belgium and the Netherlands, there were fears that their communications were intercepted too. Here, the newly disclosed information will be discussed and combined with things we learned from the hearings of the German parliamentary commission that investigates NSA spying, including operation Eikonal. > See also: New details about the joint NSA-BND operation Eikonal Overview of the joint NSA-BND operation Eikonal (2004-2008) (Click to enlarge) Leak The ...

(Updated: January 24, 2016) This weblog first reported about the joint NSA-BND operation Eikonal on October 15, 2014, but meanwhile interesting new details became available from the hearings of the German parliamentary inquiry, and from recent disclosures by a politician from Austria. Under operation Eikonal, the NSA cooperated with the German foreign intelligence service BND for access to transit cables from Deutsche Telekom in Frankfurt. Here follows an overview of what is known about this operation so far. New information may be added as it comes available. - Initial reporting - Parliamentary hearings - - Disclosures from Austria - > See for the latest: Unnoticed leak answers and raises questions about operation Eikonal   Initial reporting Operation Eikonal was revealed by the regional German paper Süddeutsche Zeitung and the regional broadcasters NDR and WDR on October 4, 2014. They reported that between 2004 and 2008, the German foreign intelligence service BND had t...