{"id":100,"date":"2013-06-21T13:03:53","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T13:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tcert.org\/news\/?p=100"},"modified":"2013-11-05T07:56:57","modified_gmt":"2013-11-05T07:56:57","slug":"operation-tempora-gchq-taps-fibre-optic-cables-for-secret-access-to-worlds-communications-uk-news-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tcert.org\/news\/2013\/06\/operation-tempora-gchq-taps-fibre-optic-cables-for-secret-access-to-worlds-communications-uk-news-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Operation Tempora: GCHQ taps fibre-optic cables for secret access to world&#8217;s communications | UK news | The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Operation Tempora:\u00a0GCHQ taps fibre-optic cables for secret access to world&#8217;s communications.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Britain&#8217;s spy agency\u00a0<a title=\"More from the Guardian on GCHQ\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk\/gchq\">GCHQ<\/a>\u00a0has secretly gained access to the network of cables which carry the world&#8217;s phone calls and\u00a0<a title=\"More from the Guardian on Internet\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/internet\">internet<\/a>\u00a0traffic&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The sheer scale of the agency&#8217;s ambition is reflected in the titles of its two principal components: Mastering the Internet and Global Telecoms Exploitation, aimed at scooping up as much online and telephone traffic as possible. &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;GCHQ\u00a0was handling 600m &#8220;telephone events&#8221; each day, had tapped more than 200 fibre-optic cables and was able to process data from at least 46 of them at a time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk\/2013\/jun\/21\/gchq-cables-secret-world-communications-nsa\">GCHQ taps fibre-optic cables for secret access to world&#8217;s communications | UK news | The Guardian<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Operation Tempora:\u00a0GCHQ taps fibre-optic cables for secret access to world&#8217;s communications. &#8220;Britain&#8217;s spy agency\u00a0GCHQ\u00a0has secretly gained access to the network of cables which carry the world&#8217;s phone calls and\u00a0internet\u00a0traffic&#8221;. &#8220;The sheer scale of the agency&#8217;s ambition is reflected in the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":103,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24,34,32,5,33,6,4,35],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-backdoors","tag-fiber","tag-gchq","tag-interception","tag-nsa","tag-spying","tag-telecom","tag-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tcert.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tcert.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tcert.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tcert.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tcert.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.tcert.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102,"href":"http:\/\/www.tcert.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions\/102"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tcert.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tcert.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tcert.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tcert.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}