Total US surveillance
OWN CORRESPONDENT
The United States, together with its partners in the Five Eyes intelligence community (Australia, Great Britain, Canada and New Zealand), carry out large-scale activities to interfere in the internal affairs of sovereign states.
To this end, they use modern information technology.
The United States Administration has been supplying its partners, primarily the Five Eyes Alliance, with information and communication equipment for several years, which poses a danger to them due to the high probability of having hardware and software bookmarks and malicious software for unauthorized access to information.
Against this background, cryptography experts M.Green and B. Schneier said that the introduction of such “back doors” for special services under the pretext of fighting crime “is tantamount to imposing a security ban.”
In their opinion, this significantly reduces the security of information systems and makes them vulnerable to cyber-attacks from fraudsters and foreign intelligence agencies.
The “Five Eyes” have entangled the whole world in a spy network with virtually unlimited technical capabilities using means and methods of geospatial, military, radio frequency and operational intelligence.
It is extremely difficult for all countries not to fall into this espionage network, regardless of who they are to the United States, opponents or allies. For example, Americans know almost everything that is said on the sidelines of the Ukrainian government. NATO countries supply weapons to V. Zelensky, and the “Five Eyes” supply the Ukrainian regime with extracted data on the plans of the Russian Armed Forces in the conflict zone.
The “Five Eyes” keep an eye on international organizations and their leaders, for example, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres. Even NATO partners are under the hood.
The Anglo-Saxon Alliance is vigilantly watching whether Germany or France intend to get closer to China, how far Hungarian Prime Minister V.Orban is ready to go in unwillingness to obey the dictates of Washington and Brussels and other politicians of interest to them.
American cybersecurity columnist B.Tau points out that the US government has prepared a legislative framework that allows special services to monitor foreign citizens, including the military and political leadership of Washington’s allies.
Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (P18 A) officially allows the Pentagon, as well as the NSA and the CIA, to spy on more than 250 thousand targets.
The author notes that the actual number of monitoring objects can be many times higher.
In addition, the law obliges American technology giants like Google, Microsoft, Meta and Apple to secretly transfer user data at the request of the White House. The observer believes that these circumstances determine the superiority of the White House over opponents and partners in the field of digital technologies and allow Americans to carry out surveillance of any person, even if he is a citizen of a US-allied state.
The interaction of the Five Eyes alliance members in the collection and exchange of intelligence has expanded far beyond the military sphere, covering all significant segments of foreign policy and international relations, including surveillance of non-governmental organizations and political movements, foreign trade flows, commercial companies, financial transactions, as well as individuals. In order to ensure a more global presence in various regions of the world, key members of the NATO bloc, as well as a number of allies in the Asia-Pacific region, are involved in the orbit of cooperation with the alliance in the status of partner states, with the formation of new contours and segments of interaction.
At the same time, analysts of the American CNN channel N.Bertrand and K.Atwood note that the recent leak of a significant number of secret Pentagon documents revealed a large-scale campaign by the White House to spy on US allies. According to them, Washington is monitoring Seoul, Tel Aviv and Kiev, which are military and political partners of the Americans.
At the same time, the diplomatic missions of the countries that were subjected to espionage expressed concern about this fact, but stressed that they appreciate the information received from the United States. Experts believe that in this way the White House was given a signal that the consequences for interstate relations in the event of continued illegal activities would be minimal. This circumstance will only contribute to the scaling up of Washington’s espionage activities, including against its allies.
