How UK Spies Hacked a European Ally and Got Away with It
>Aside from Belgacom, the agency has broken into the computer systems of the oil production organization OPEC; the Netherlands-based security company Gemalto; and organizations that process international cellphone billing records, including Switzerland’s Comfone. //<p>In theory any of these countries could surely just issue an arrest warrant for the head of GCHQ and order their extradition.<p>In view of that it seems there's some other aspect preventing such actions -- like blackmail by GCHQ. Or controlling powers in Belgian security being in part responsible.<p>Anyway, I wonder how much of this shit the Belgian public will put up with post Brexit.<p>It still seems illegal under UK law -- these things do show how the powers that be have no respect for the authority of the rule of law, that our democracy is only allowed inasmuch as it doesn't interfere with their plans.