It is recent news that, according to the Economist, the United States has also wiretapped Hungarian leaders in the recent period. Although we don't know more about this for the time being, if Angela Merkel was wiretapped at the time, and who, perhaps inadvertently, thereby became blackmailable (although this cannot be proven either), we could be offended if we were not wiretapped.
Mandiner asked secret service expert József Horváth about the interceptions. We quote from the writing.
Every secret service sees its own national interests first, second and third
- said József Horváth, who believes that the services that want to protect their state leaders are now forced to act.
Quoting a former Mossad director general, I would like to remind you; there are friendly countries, but no friendly secret services
he added. According to the security policy advisor of the Center for Fundamental Rights, it should be noted that all secret services consider their own national interests as first, second and third" .(...)
József Horváth said that a responsible politician is aware that if he pursues a policy (that the opponent does not like - ed.), they can be observed. As soon as it turns out, all of this may cause mistrust, but it must be taken into account.
There are "hundreds of ways" to observe and gather information, and based on the information that has been made public so far, we cannot know how the Americans worked, said the expert. It could have been a software solution, or they could have tapped into the network system .
Today, it is also possible that the owner of the monitored device does not even have to open any software, but the spyware is still activated. The world's leading technical superpowers do not share their top high-tech equipment, they only hand it over to their allies if they already have an even better, more modern one, said József Horváth.
However, he drew attention to the fact that now all secret services must act in order to be able to protect their own state leaders more effectively, and they have the technologies for this. When the Snowden scandal broke, a "certain Vladimir Putin" ordered his services, which then disconnected from the Internet in the most sensitive cases, got rid of the computers they used before and returned to the world of documents typed on paper with mechanical typewriters.
Sometimes a simple wooden wedge is a good solution,
the security policy advisor of the Center for Fundamental Rights pointed out.
Source: Mandiner.hu
Author: Gergely Várhelyi
Image: Hirado.hu
