Lesson plan
Operation Eikonal
s at the Fernmeldeverkehrstelle des Bundesnachrichtendiensts (BND-Codename: Hortensie III, abbreviated 3 D 30), part of the Bad Aibling Station in Bavaria. This facility was run by the National Security Agency (NSA) until 2004 as part of ECHELON, and later, after transfer to the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), was used by the Special US Liaison Activity Germany, where the NSA and BND jointly analysed data captured under Operation Eikonal. Operation Eikonal is a collaboration between the National Security Agency (NSA) and Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) for the sharing of telephony and Internet data captured in Germany. It is based on an agreement that dates to 2002, and is part of the NSA operation "RAMPART-A". Surveillance started in 2003, telephony data was collected from 2004 onwards, and all Internet traffic from the Deutsche Telekom (DT) switching center in Frankfurt was captured starting in 2005. To obtain the data, the BND and DT worked together. The agents rented two rooms in the DT data center in Frankfurt where the fiber optic data cable owned by DT was spliced into, and a copy of the data was captured. DT received 6000 euros monthly for its role in giving access to data.…
Article summary
s at the Fernmeldeverkehrstelle des Bundesnachrichtendiensts (BND-Codename: Hortensie III, abbreviated 3 D 30), part of the Bad Aibling Station in Bavaria. This facility was run by the National Security Agency (NSA) until 2004 as part of ECHELON, and later, after transfer to the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), was used by the Special US Liaison Activity Germany, where the NSA and BND jointly analysed data captured under Operation Eikonal. Operation Eikonal is a collaboration between the National Security Agency (NSA) and Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) for the sharing of telephony and Internet data captured in Germany. It is based on an agreement that dates to 2002, and is part of the NSA operation "RAMPART-A". Surveillance started in 2003, telephony data was collected from 2004 onwards, and all Internet traffic from the Deutsche Telekom (DT) switching center in Frankfurt was captured starting in 2005. To obtain the data, the BND and DT worked together. The agents rented two rooms in the DT data center in Frankfurt where the fiber optic data cable owned by DT was spliced into, and a copy of the data was captured. DT received 6000 euros monthly for its role in giving access to data.…
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- Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
- Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
- If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?
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