Wednesday, March 16, 2016

Telephone tapping: cascading bugs and salty note – The World – The World

The sun sets as a visitor uses His mobile phone During the opening day of the 2015 Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona on March 2, 2015. Phone makers will seek to seduce new buyers with-even smarter Internet-connected watches and --other wireless gadgets as they wrestle for dominance at the world's biggest mobile fair starting today. AFP PHOTO / JOSEP LAGO / AFP / JOSEP LAGO

the snowball effect seems engaged around the national Platform of judicial interceptions ( PNij), developed and hosted by Thales. In its edition of March 14, Libération revealed the bugs wiped end of February by the computer software, preventing judicial police to conduct wiretaps for a week. In its edition of March 16, the Canard chained shows this time the contents of a confidential report of the Court of Auditors, to the Prime Minister on February 18, which chokes the cost of this software interception.

at the launch of the PNij in 2014, the government had promised considerable economies of scale. This is what justified the choice of a single operator, replacing the listening stations managed by several private providers. According to the Canard chained , the Court of Auditors evokes a past estimate of 17 million to about 100 million euros in 2016, and invoices grows.

“There crashes since the beginning “

overall, wiretapping would have cost more than a billion euros in ten years. “In 2015, the PNij has saved 3.5 million euros on the core rental fees eavesdropping , defends the Ministry of Justice. Since January 2016 the pace of economy is one million euros per month. “” More than the overall cost of the project is its delay is primarily regrettable “, nevertheless stresses the Court of Auditors, about a determined centralization …

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