O (No) Canada!: Free Airport Wi-Fi Hacked for Mass Surveillance

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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/01/31



Program allowed surveillance agency to bulk collect metadata from all passengers passing through terminals (

O (No) Canada!: Free Airport Wi-Fi Hacked for Mass Surveillance
- Jon Queally, staff writer
Published on Friday, January 31, 2014 by Common Dreams

Canada's most secretive intelligence agency, the Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC), used the free wi-fi networks provided at one of the nation's largest airports to obtain the metadata contained in the electronic devices of passengers passing through the terminals which then allowed the agency to "track" the devices going forward.

Those are the explosive revelations that Canadian citizens woke to on Friday, with a new report by CBC News—based on documents leaked to journalists by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden—showing that the program by the CSEC, which is charged with foreign intelligence and barred from spying on Canadian citizens, was being used to bulk collect the personal digital information of all people using the open and public network.

Described as a "test run," the program was not known to airport officials questioned by the CBC, though the details of the technology were shared with other intelligence agencies from the so-called Five Eyes countries, which includes the U.S., New Zealand, the U.K., and Australia.

CBC reports:

The latest Snowden document indicates the spy service was provided with information captured from unsuspecting travellers' wireless devices by the airport's free Wi-Fi system over a two-week period.

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. Someone needs to come with counter measures we can use.

It is a given that the "Five Eyes" are going to grab as much info. as they can.

We need a way to get around that, along with our efforts to stop the snooping.