Der Guardian berichtet über neue Snowden-Enthüllungen, wonach der britische Geheimdienst GCHQ investigative Journalisten besonders beobachtet und vom Gefährdungsgrad zwischen Terroristen und Hacker einordnet.
GCHQ information security assessments, meanwhile, routinely list journalists between “terrorism” and “hackers” as “influencing threat sources”, with one matrix scoring journalists as having a “capability” score of two out of five, and a “priority” of three out of five, scoring an overall “low” information security risk. Terrorists, listed immediately above investigative journalists on the document, were given a much higher “capability” score of four out of five, but a lower “priority” of two. The matrix concluded terrorists were therefore a “moderate” information security risk.
2008 wurde bei einer Übung ein neues Tool ausprobiert, was innerhalb von 10 Minuten 70.000 Mails aus einem überwachten Glasfaserkabel rausgefischt hat, darunter sollen auch Mails von Journalisten der Medien BBC, Reuters, the Guardian, the New York Times, Le Monde, the Sun, NBC und the Washington Post sein: GCHQ intercepted emails of journalists from top international media.
Pressefreiheit made in Britain!