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Comments on: Preatoni breaks silence over Telecom Italia spying probe

Does this... 

Posted Monday 14th April 2008 14:34 GMT

Black Helicopters

...story remind you of anything ?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/02/06/greece_mobile_snooping_scandal

"[...] will re-examine the supposed suicide of Kostas Tsalikidis, 39, Vodafone Greece’s head of network design."

Seems like the NSA's been busy in the Med.

Looks like Phorm wont be opening an office here then 

Posted Monday 14th April 2008 15:42 GMT

Not if there is a chance that the Police actually care about wiretaping

and let's not forget all the spying on soccer clubs 

Posted Monday 14th April 2008 16:00 GMT

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Telecom's CEO (at that time) was also FC Inter VP. Somehow Inter's phone calls to refs never made it to the police in the soccer scandal of 2 years ago and they got an Italian title for being oh so squeaky clean (I mean, fielding a player with a fake passport, Alavaro Recoba, for 2 years is not a crime)

@ Dimitris 

Posted Tuesday 15th April 2008 11:06 GMT

Yes, I thought that too.

But was it the NSA behind the Greece case, has there ever been much evidence of that? It's hard to overlook that Vodafone is UK-owned, and a hack of that complexity seems so unlikely to have been carried out by a 3rd party. Oddly enough the whole story got minimal coverage in the UK mainstream press too.

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