USG has had front door access to SWIFT for over a decade. In 2013, when they targeted EastNets, they had recently renegotiated access w/EU.
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SWIFT front door access, while limited to (inadequately overseen) CT purposes is not onerous. Europol refused normal EU oversight on it.
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So part of that story--if you're reporting anything beyond 1) that it continued after being exposed 2) why EastNets is...why double dip?
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One POSSIBLE reason you'd hack to double dip on CT? To avoid admitting to EU Qatar (whose backs figure prominently) is funding terrorism.
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One POSSIBLE non-CT reason to hack? Bc our Middle Eastern allies are corrupt kleptocrats and we like to watch where their stolen $$ ends up.
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Anyway, here is my post from Friday on SWIFT. https://www.emptywheel.net/2017/04/14/nsa-continued-double-dipping-at-swift-even-after-it-was-exposed/ …
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What exactly does "front door access" mean / what SWIFT agremnt provide for? Access to realtime transactions? After fact rpting?
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It is supposed to provide for queries of transaction records for terrorism investigations, via the coop itself.
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Perhaps double dipping driven by, among other things, concern of hidden transactions or validation of what they were seeing.
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