...............17.............
Flashmag November 2018 www.flashmag.net
a "strange" saturation of the servers of the AU between midnight and 2am. An anomaly that after investigation proved to be due to massive transfers of internal data from the UA to servers hosted in the vicinity of Shanghai; the Chinese megapolis.
This discovery made it possible to identify backdoors voluntarily left by the Chinese engineers in 2012, and which offered a discrete and privileged, access to all the exchanges and internal productions of the organization. This gigantic leak of data would have been on, since 2012, until the discovery of the joke in January 2017
The spying operations that target the AU are not limited to China. To recall, the leaked documents of Edward Snowden prove that the GCHQ (service of British espionage ) intercepted letters and calls of African officials between 2009 and 2010. Meanwhile French intelligence services privilege human intelligence within the AU, going as far as to try to enlist personalities at the head of the Commission.
Some African countries like South Africa or Morocco are also spying to at least protect their territory and prevent. Thus in 2017 Morocco launched its first spy satellite, built by the Franco-Italian consortium Thales Alenia Space and Airbus, the Mohammed VI A and B, forms a system of two satellites placed in the same orbit. 694 km from Earth, these satellites are capable of taking up to 500 photos per day. A geostrategic advantage that worries neighboring Spain, which has had territorial disputes with Morocco for centuries including
the enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla, and the five islets off the coast of Morocco. Spain does not have its own "spy" satellite, and is content to contribute 2.5% to the European observation program Helios, alongside France (90% majority), Belgium , Italy and Greece. A participation that remains insufficient since, during the crisis of the "Islet of Persil" in 2002, which almost degenerated into open war, the heavy bureaucracy of the European Union had not allowed Spain to obtain in time satellite images of Moroccan troop movements.
Apart from what pundits call espionage in peacetime, which is aimed at all activities of illegal collection of information against state entities, it is important to note that even if hostilities between countries are not open, there has been for several centuries a pernicious asymmetric war of interest against Africa and its resources. If, during slavery, the most sought-after natural resource was human labor, and techniques such as ethnicization, the exacerbation of tribalism, and wars allowed prisoners of war to be found in the holds of slave ships; it is important to note that nothing has changed in the strategy of division and domination. Relationships between the different components of the African continent continue to be artificially exacerbated to create disagreements that facilitate conflict and help underdevelopment. For decades African economies have been confined to the bottom of the scale, in an economic assassination strategy, that forces these countries to be simple suppliers of raw materials, which are often bought at cheap prices. Technological illiteracy is cleverly maintained by the same entities that control those who govern these countries, to perpetuate profiteering chaos. If misery is the mother of all vices, ignorance is the father of nothingness, when one knows nothing, nothing can be undertaken.
By Hubert Marlin
Journalist