U.S. government spied on Brazil's Petrobras oil firm: Globo TV

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Reuters

U.S. government spied on Brazil's Petrobras oil firm: Globo TV
Reuters
12:08 p.m. EDT, September 8, 2013

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - The U.S. government allegedly spied on Brazilian state-run oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA, known as Petrobras, according to the web site of Globo, Brazil's biggest television network.

The network, which a week ago aired a report alleging that the U.S. National Security Agency intercepted communications by the presidents of Brazil and Mexico, said its information again came from Glenn Greenwald, an American activist who has worked with fugitive former NSA analyst Edward Snowden to expose the extent of U.S. spying at home and abroad.

Promotional teasers from the network said it would give details of the spying on Sunday night, again on its "Fantastico" program.

Greenwald, a blogger and civil liberties activist who lives in Rio de Janeiro, declined to discuss the Petrobras allegations until after the program airs. Petrobras officials could not be reached for comment.

New revelations of U.S. spying could complicate a diplomatic row between the United States and Brazil sparked by the allegations of NSA spying on the private phone calls and emails of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff.

Read more: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-rt-us-usa-security-snowden-petrobras-20130908,0,6683711.story#ixzz2eKiz1fN2

[Rumold]

1. Again , nothing new

isn't it the job of our spy agency to commit economic espionage on our foreign competitors.

how else can the wealthy use our tax dollars to benefit themselves financially.

[blkmusclmachine]

2. And with no end in sight.

[Judi Lynn]

3. Snowden Documents Show U.S. Spied on Petrobras, Globo TV Reports

Snowden Documents Show U.S. Spied on Petrobras, Globo TV Reports
By Gabrielle Coppola - Sep 8, 2013 9:21 PM CT .

The U.S. government spied on Brazil’s state-controlled oil company, Petroleo Brasileiro SA, Globo TV reported, citing classified documents obtained by former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden.

The television network, which reported a week ago that the U.S. National Security Agency intercepted phone calls and e-mails of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, aired slides from an NSA presentation from 2012 that explained the agency’s capability to penetrate private networks of companies such as Petrobras, as the oil company is known, and Google Inc.

One slide in the presentation listed “economic” as an intention for spying, as well as diplomatic and political reasons. None of the documents revealed the motivation for the alleged spying on Petrobras, according to Globo.

The NSA allegedly shared its spying capabilities and information with peer agencies in the U.K., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, according to Globo.

American journalist Glenn Greenwald collaborated with Globo News to report tonight’s story. He first presented accusations that the NSA intercepted phone calls and e-mails from Rousseff on Globo television on Sept. 1. Greenwald has said the information revealed earlier this month was part of the first batch of documents he received from Snowden when they met in Hong Kong.

More:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-09-08/u-s-government-spied-on-brazil-s-petrobras-globo-tv-reports.html

[Judi Lynn]

4. Report: US spied on Google, Brazil's Petrobras

Report: US spied on Google, Brazil's Petrobras
Published: September 8, 2013 Updated 5 hours ago
By BRADLEY BROOKS — Associated Press

RIO DE JANEIRO — The National Security Agency's spying targeted the private computer networks of Google, a company that facilitates most of the world's international bank transfers and Brazil's state-run oil firm Petrobras, according to documents leaked by Edward Snowden, a Brazilian TV report said Sunday night.

There were no details in Globo TV's report about what information the NSA may have obtained.

All three companies are included in what the report said is an NSA training manual for new agents on how to target the private computer networks of big companies. They are Google, Petrobras was the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, better known as SWIFT, the Belgium-based company that facilitates most international bank transfers in what are thought to be secure transactions.

Earlier reports based on Snowden's documents revealed the existence of the NSA's PRISM program that gives the agency comprehensive access to customer data from companies like Google and Facebook. Separate reports last week in the Guardian, New York Times and ProPublica, also based on Snowden's leak, indicated the NSA and its British counterpart had developed "new access opportunities" into Google's computers by 2012, but the documents didn't indicate how extensive the project was or what kind of data it could access.

More:
http://www.centredaily.com/2013/09/08/3777473/report-us-spied-on-brazil-state.html#storylink=cpy

[quadrature]

5. encrypt files yourself, using some ...

program that can be looked at,
then send via commercially encrypted email.

the big email packages have 'backdoors'.