New Snowden leaks show David Miliband gave GCHQ permission to hack popular software programs

The motivation behind that fact-free BS published by the Sunday Times is becoming clearer and clearer.


David Miliband, during his time as Foreign Secretary, granted British spy agency GCHQ permission to exploit popular software programs without being detected in order to learn new ways to hack computers.

That was the revelation today after 23 new documents leaked by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden were publicly released.

GCHQ carried out ‘reverse engineering’, an illegal technique that allows hackers to find weak points in computer programs, on anti-virus and encryption software used by some of the world’s largest organisations, according to The Intercept.

The leaked documents expose GCHQ’s attempts in 2008, when Miliband headed up the Foreign Office, to obtain warrants that allowed it to infringe software copyrights and breach licensing agreements. ...............(more)

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