[HN Gopher] Hackers breached U.N. computer networks earlier this...
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       Hackers breached U.N. computer networks earlier this year
        
       Author : breckenedge
       Score  : 5 points
       Date   : 2021-09-09 22:42 UTC (19 minutes ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.washingtonpost.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.washingtonpost.com)
        
       | perihelions wrote:
       | _" International organizations like the U.N. pose high-value
       | targets for cyberespionage and draw the interest of many foreign
       | state actors,"_
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       | Also, domestic state actors. Weird framing by the WaPo there --
       | how do you even qualify "foreign" in this context, the UN isn't a
       | part of the USA?
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       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spying_on_the_United_Nations
       | 
       | > _" In one notable incident, the US and other Western countries
       | were found to be spying on the UN in March 2003, in the run-up to
       | the Iraq War,[2] and actual bugging devices were found inside the
       | UN.[3][4][5] In 2010, WikiLeaks revealed that US diplomats had
       | been spying on UN leaders. On 25 August 2013, Der Spiegel
       | revealed US National Security Agency secretly monitored the
       | U.N.'s internal video conferencing system by decrypting during
       | 2012.[6]"_
        
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