Reading the British press and news, the whole Iran issue just seems like something rumbling along in the background. Savvy secretive operatives outside of the mainstream seem to think that American military strikes are weeks away. In fact, covert American military action has already started. Again convenient allies in the clandestine efforts are the willing, unwilling Wireless Telcos that have ramped up surveillance as needed by their  spymasters. UK’s Vodafone leads the way here. An exemplar of growth and responsibility under Sir Christopher Gent, the current Vodafone leadership is mirred in scandal and greed. The company is seen as the spymaster’s whore and has publicly been revealed as the perpetrators of numerous eavesdropping and spying on ordinary citizens and high public officials without Due process of Law. Are You reminded by the US Telco debacle?

Unfortunately the corruption into the system is endemic:

Built into the  software that runs the Vodafone (UK-owned) mobile telephony network switching system for GSM service providers around the world, is a little-known “Legal Interception” software package designed to be used by law enforcement authorities. This software allows incoming and outgoing conversations from allegedly up to 5000-6000 mobile phone numbers per switching center to be recorded, on presentation of a valid judicial warrant. Telecoms claim that governments require from telephone companies to give law enforcement authorities the capability to monitor up to 5% of active calls as one precondition for an operating license. Seldom the legal warrant is invoked when the listening facility is used.

Who is responsible when the Illegal Intercepts of the telecommunications are massively exercised without Due Process?  Princes beware…

When the scandal seems to hit the press the Mea Culpas aren’t enough. The Business Model of the Wireless operators and the Investors Mandate is not what the current regimes require the company to perform. Can the Board of Directors with steely resolve and British Backbone resist the easy path down to destruction for this great Company?

It seems they should before any Jurist and regulators or the European Commissioners step in;  as I don’t think that anyone in Europe has the temerity to issue them a Free Get out of Jail Ticket as was issued to the American Telco Counterparts for their offences.

Yet again Who knows as Uncle Sam and Aunt Emma seem to lock step right about now. At least no lobbying to that effect is under way in EU yet.  Maybe the European Commissioners work in a more secretive way and can be persuaded to keep still and quiet. A good Hope to pray for at night before the nightmare begins. A sure sign of things to come is the Vodafone response:

A publicity campaign by Vodafone to assure voters in Europe of their respect for privacy, individual and  fundamental human rights is a must. Image is everything on this issue ready to explode in the public eye.  In specifics this should be part of a backdrop of sensitivity  fuelled by the one prominently public Vodafone spying scandal in Greece. Around 1000 mobile phones of citizens and more than one hundred mobile phones used by the Prime Minister (head of State) and  including those phones belonging to all senior ministers of the government; they were found to being tapped via software installed on Vodafone’s network. The uncovered part of the spying fiasco  started when the Euro-socialist party was in power, and continued when the more conservative Right wing party formed the current administration. Conveniently for Vodafone and the British hacks, this means both parties have been able to blame the other, and throw lots of mud around, without actually having to reveal who was listening in to the phone taps nor being able or willing to penalize the company due to extreme pressure from Whitehall. 

Now that the next war looms, Vodafone opened the listening gates again and harvests wind…. WHY?