How GCHQ Spies Hacked Belgium’s Largest Telco
To me, by far the most interesting bit is this:GCHQ developed a system called NOCTURNAL SURGE to search for particular engineers and system administrators by finding their IP addresses...The confirmation came in the form of Google, Yahoo, and LinkedIn “cookies,” tiny unique files that are automatically placed on computers to identify and sometimes track people browsing the Internet, often for advertising purposes. GCHQ maintains a huge repository named MUTANT BROTH that stores billions of these intercepted cookies, which it uses to correlate with IP addresses to determine the identity of a person.Hope you aren't sending cookies to an http site. Ever.