Talk:Operation Eikonal

A fact from Operation Eikonal appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 6 December 2015 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Operation Eikonal delivered data about European defense projects to the National Security Agency?

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This section has been removed: "In 2006, the Deutscher Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX) used for the operation had peak traffic of 90 Gbit/s;^[1] by February 2014, the traffic increased to an average of 2 Tbit/s.^[2]"

Several sources note that the DE-CIX was not actually used as initially reported. It was stated later that a direct cable or cables at DT in Frankfurt was used to collect the information.Confusion about the role of Deutsche Telekom resulted in the German parliament (NSAUA) investigating. http://www.golem.de/news/operation-eikonal-nsa-ausschuss-nimmt-deutsche-telekom-unter-die-lupe-1410-109865.html

During hearings of BND officials it became clear that operation Eikonal was not about tapping into the Frankfurt internet exchange DE-CIX, but about one or more cables from Deutsche Telekom. This was first confirmed by German media on December 4, 2014. http://www.zeit.de/politik/deutschland/2014-12/bnd-kanzleramt-eikonal-nsa pschemp | talk 22:21, 15 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ http://meetings.ripe.net/ripe-57/presentations/Tremmel-DE-CIX_update.CIcX.pdf
^ DE-CIX Management GmbH. "DE-CIX - Statistics". de-cix.net.

[1] ttp://meetings.ripe.net/ripe-57/presentations/Tremmel-DE-CIX_update.CIcX.pdf

[2] DE-CIX Management GmbH. "DE-CIX - Statistics". de-cix.net.

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