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SitiWanMahani - Ahli-ahli
kerajaan Jerman akan menggunakan telefon menyulitkan sebagai sebahagian
daripada garis panduan ‘segera’ untuk melindungi pengintipan NSA. Perisian
penyulitan tidak serasi dengan Apple, jadi Jerman akan menghentikan penggunaan
iPhone di peringkat kerajaan.
2
parti politik utama Jerman - Kesatuan Demokratik Kristian (CDU) dan Parti
Demokratik Sosial ( SPD) - telah bersetuju dengan garis panduan baru untuk
memastikan menteri dilindungi daripada mempunyai komunikasi mereka dipintas
oleh agensi-agensi perisikan. Sebagai sebahagian daripada peraturan-peraturan
baru, ahli-ahli politik dan pegawai-pegawai berpangkat tinggi akan diperlukan
untuk membuat panggilan di telefon yang disulitkan.
Software
diluluskan oleh Pejabat Persekutuan Bonn Jerman bagi Keselamatan Maklumat (BSI)
akan digunakan untuk melindungi telefon dari campur tangan luar. Program itu
sendiri tidak serasi dengan teknologi Apple , jadi menteri Jerman akan dilarang
daripada menggunakan iPhone untuk komunikasi rasmi, akhbar Laporan Tempatan.
“Perbualan
kami dan struktur komunikasi perlu menjadi lebih selamat,” kata laporan kata
kerajaan ekoran skandal pengintip yang mendedahkan komunikasi Canselor Angela
Merkel telah dipantau oleh NSA.
Canselor
Jerman ditangani laporan NSA mengintip Jerman, dibocorkan kepada akhbar oleh bekas
pekerja CIA Edward Snowden, pada hari Isnin di pendengaran di parlimen. Beliau
menyelar tuduhan pengintipan massa sebagai “Kubur” dan berkata mereka telah
meletakkan hubungan transatlantik “untuk ujian.”
Merkel
menyeru organisasi pengintip Amerika Syarikat untuk menjelaskan masa depan
aktiviti-aktiviti mereka di negara Eropah untuk menggalakkan “penciptaan
keyakinan transatlantik baru.”
Menteri
Dalam Negeri Jerman Hans-Peter Friedrich juga menyerang pengendalian Washington
skandal NSA itu.
“Amerika
perlu membersihkan dakwaan itu, mereka tidak boleh menjadi terperangkap dalam
percanggahan,” kata Friedrich.
Kebocoran
keselamatan Snowden mendedahkan program pengintip luas Washington di Eropah
yang mencatatkan berjuta-juta panggilan telefon dan surat-menyurat elektronik
dipintas secara besar-besaran. Tambahan pula, satu laporan pada Oktober berkata
bahawa NSA mungkin telah memantau komunikasi Canselor Merkel sejak tahun 2002.
Ia
juga mendedahkan Amerika Syarikat telah menggunakan kedutaan di Berlin sebagai
asas untuk operasi mengintip.
Akhbar
Jerman Der Spiegel melaporkan bahawa telefon Merkel telah disenaraikan oleh
Perkhidmatan Koleksi Khas NSA itu (SCS) sejak tahun 2002 – “GE Canselor Merkel”
ditandakan sebagai Selain itu, Canselor masih dalam senarai hanya beberapa
minggu sebelum Presiden Barack Obama adalah disebabkan untuk lawatan rasmi ke
Berlin pada bulan Jun.
Sebagai
tindak balas kepada skandal pengintip Jerman menekan untuk perjanjian tidak
mengintip untuk dimasukkan ke dalam sebuah transatlantik perjanjian perdagangan
bebas.
“Rundingan
bagi perjanjian perdagangan bebas pada masa ini, tanpa ragu-ragu, yang diuji,”
kata Merkel pada hari Isnin.
Ceramah
akan diadakan dengan wakil-wakil EU di Washington pada bulan Disember untuk
memuktamadkan perjanjian itu.
Terdapat
juga panggilan di Jerman bagi kerajaan untuk memberi pemberi maklumat suaka Edward
Snowden. Isnin menyaksikan penunjuk perasaan berkumpul di luar Bundestag dalam
menyokong pemberi maklumat yang kini menetap di Moscow di mana beliau telah
diberikan suaka politik sementara.
Berikutan
skandal pengintip, amanah rakyat Jerman di Amerika Syarikat sebagai sekutu
telah menjunam. Satu tinjauan baru-baru ini menunjukkan 35% peratus masih
melihat Washington sebagai rakan kongsi yang boleh dipercayai - penurunan
sebanyak 14 peratus sejak Julai.
Apple
repealed: German politicians to use encrypted
phones to block NSA spying . . .
Members
of the German government will use encrypted phones as part of ‘urgent’
guidelines to protect against NSA snooping. The encryption software is not
compatible with Apple, so Germany will phase out the use of iPhones at
government level.
Germany’s
two main political parties - the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the
Social Democratic Party (SPD) – have agreed on new guidelines to ensure
ministers are protected from having their communications intercepted by spy
agencies. As part of the new regulations, politicians and high-ranking
officials will be required to make calls on encrypted phones.
Software
approved by Germany’s Bonn Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) will
be used to protect phones from outside meddling. The program itself is
incompatible with Apple technology, so German ministers will be forbidden from
using iPhones for official communications, reports newspaper The Local.
“Our
conversations and communication structure have to be safer,” the government
report said in the wake of the spy scandal that revealed Chancellor Angela
Merkel’s communications had been monitored by the NSA.
The
German Chancellor addressed the reports of NSA spying on Germany, leaked to the
press by former CIA employee Edward Snowden, on Monday at a parliamentary
hearing. She slammed the allegations of mass espionage as “grave” and said they
had put transatlantic relations “to the test.”
Merkel
called on the US spy organization to clarify the future of their activities in
the European country to encourage “the creation of a new transatlantic
confidence.”
German
Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich also attacked Washington’s handling of
the NSA scandal.
"The
Americans need to clear up the allegations, they cannot become caught up in
contradictions," Friedrich said.
Snowden’s
security leaks revealed Washington’s extensive spy program in Europe that
recorded millions of phone calls and intercepted electronic correspondence on a
massive scale. Furthermore, a report in October said that the NSA could have
been monitoring the communications of Chancellor Merkel since 2002.
It
was also revealed the US had used the embassy in Berlin as a base for spy
operations.
German
newspaper Der Spiegel reported that Merkel’s phone had been listed by the NSA's
Special Collection Service (SCS) since 2002 - marked as “GE Chancellor Merkel.”
Moreover, the Chancellor was still on the list just weeks before President
Barack Obama was due for an official visit to Berlin in June.
In
response to the spy scandal Germany is pressing for a no-spying agreement to be
included in a transatlantic free-trade deal.
“The
negotiations for a free trade agreement are presently, without doubt, being put
to the test,” said Merkel on Monday.
Talks
will be held with EU representatives in Washington in December to finalize the
agreement.
There
have also been calls in Germany for the government to grant whistleblower
Edward Snowden asylum. Monday saw protesters gather outside the Bundestag in
support of the whistleblower who is currently residing in Moscow where he has
been granted temporary political asylum.
Following
the spy scandal, the German people’s trust in the US as an ally has plummeted.
A recent poll showed 35 percent still see Washington as a reliable partner – a
drop of 14 percent since July.
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