"Swedens National Defence Radio Establishment (Försvarets radioanstalt FRA) prevented a political murder and revealed that Soviet mock attacks were in fact prank flights, reports the Svenska Dagbladet (SvD) newspaper.
FRAs operations are guarded with extreme secrecy. However, the agency has been under fire since the government passed a new controversial law allowing the agency to monitor cable-borne telecommunications and internet traffic which crosses Swedens borders. Bugging can take place in the absence of criminal suspicions, which has upset many who also question the need for FRA. But the agencys surveillance helped stop an attack with deadly results against a person in Sweden, according to the agencys director general, Ingvar Åkesson." --clip-- More at http://www.thelocal.se/13210/20080723/ Juha-Matti _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
