Duncan Cambell is one of the few journalists superbly gifted in science, technology and informed analysis. He has a degree in nuclear physics, his mom reportedly a long-time employee of a UK spy agency, which must have led to great dinner convos when he and two other youngsters were prosecuted in 1978 for violating the OSA, and found innocent (she was an enthusiastic supporter): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC_trial Duncan introduced Cryptome in 1996 to 5-Eyes Echelon, Nicky Hager, Mike Frost, Perry Fellwock (outed NSA in 1974), and their bountiful reports on global surveillance in the 1980s and 1990s. Summary of their digging into secrets without benefit of leak and fixed slot machines, their voluminous and generous hard work done back then that led to today's dribbling parsimonious and niggardly news: http://cryptome.org/nsa-cryptome.htm Duncan had a long email exchange with Microsoft in 2000 about the so-called NSA_key which allegedly allowed covert access to MS products: http://cryptome.org/nsakey-ms-dc.htm And, Germany knew about 5-eyes spying in 2000: http://cryptome.org/jya/echelon-de-spy.htm What Duncan and these master researchers could do with the Snowden pile can only be dreamed about, unless, we pray, the pile has been shared with them (rumors they have helped WL). Certainly they could outdo the The Guardian (Campbell reports there occasionally), New York Times, Der Spiegel, WaPo, WSJ, et al lightweight poseurs. At 09:52 AM 10/28/2013, you wrote:
Some more gory details, several images.
http://www.duncancampbell.org/embassy-bugging
How embassy eavesdropping works