South East Asia Spying Part 2: Singapore and South Korea involved with helping US to spy on Malaysia
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[QUOTE]Singapore and South Korea helped the US and Australia intercept communications across Asia, media reports citing leaked documents said.Indonesia and Malaysia had been targets for decades, Australia's Sydney Morning Herald added.
Reports of the spying allegations came out from documents leaked by US whistleblower Edward Snowden.
"It cannot be overemphasised that spying against a good friend and neighbour is unacceptable," Malaysian Foreign Minister Anifah Aman said in a statement.
Malaysia was "extremely concerned" over the allegations, he added.
Singaporean High Commissioner Ong Keng Yong confirmed to reporters that he had been summoned to Malaysia's foreign ministry on Tuesday.
[B]Intelligence collaboration[/B]The [URL="http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/singapore-south-korea-revealed-as-five-eyes-spying-partners-20131124-2y433.html"]Sydney Morning Herald[/URL] (SMH) reported on Monday that Singapore and South Korea were helping the US tap high speed undersea fibre optic cables.
It cited [URL="http://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2013/11/23/nsa-infected-50000-computer-networks-with-malicious-software/"]a map[/URL] apparently leaked by Mr Snowden and published by Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad, which appeared to identify a network where underwater telecommunications links were being incepted.
Singapore was listed as one of the locations where information could be accessed.
Australia and Singapore had collaborated on gathering intelligence on Indonesia and Malaysia since the 1970s, SMH added.
There was no immediate comment from the Singaporean government.
Malaysian officials have already sent letters of protest to the US and Australia, but Singapore is a traditional rival, the BBC's Jennifer Pak reports from Kuala Lumpur.
Although Malaysia has improved relations with Singapore in recent years, this latest allegation will put pressure on Prime Minister Najib Razak to send a stronger signal that Malaysia will not tolerate any spying from its neighbours, our correspondent adds.
It is the latest in a series of spying allegations to hit the region.[/QUOTE]
[URL]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-25085329[/URL]
Good job Singapore spying on your neighbour.
It seems like this spying scandal might be drawing the lines for the next World Conflict.
Let's hope not.
[QUOTE=Zenreon117;43000487]It seems like this spying scandal might be drawing the lines for the next World Conflict.
Let's hope not.[/QUOTE]
Can we annex upper Canada in doing so?
Pleasseeeee
We are in the process of intercepting moose communications as we speak
[QUOTE=LoganIsAwesome;43000685]Can we annex upper Canada in doing so?
Pleasseeeee[/QUOTE]
frig off man.
our high-powered cybernetically enhanced caribou with laser beams strapped to their backs shall defend our canadian borders.
[QUOTE=Zenreon117;43000487]It seems like this spying scandal might be drawing the lines for the next World Conflict.
Let's hope not.[/QUOTE]
Stuff like this happens all the time. Not saying it's a good thing, but it takes a lot more than this to properly tick off a nation who may have very well been doing the same thing and just wasn't caught (yet).
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