Vodafone Greece is the largest telecom provider in Greece. But in 2004 a scandal within the company would pin them to be top of the news cycle in Greece for weeks. Hackers got in the network. And what they were after took everyone by surprise.
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- Greece’s Olympic bill doubles
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- The Greek Illigal Wiretapping Scandal: Some Translations and Resources
- Greek Government Press Briefing, 06-02-02
- In the antennas the secret
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- Notes - Crossword
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- Tsalikidis had the keys to Peania
- Leaked report brings calls for Vodafone prosecution
- Direct connection to suicide
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- Greek Wiretapping Scandal
- Death of Vodafone engineer linked to Greek Watergate
- The yellow of suicide, the poisons and too slow an investigation
- Italy’s Watergate
- Vodafone fined £53m over Greek phone tapping affair
- Vodafone fined €76m over Greek wiretap scandal
- The Athens Affair
- Greek mobile wiretap scandal unpicked
- Vodafone Greece Rogue Phone Taps: Details at Last
- Ericsson’s Greek branch fined over wire-tapping scandal
- Phone Tapping Scandal in Greece costs Vodafone new 19m (EUROS) Fine
- Lawful Interceptions and Countermeasures - MSc Thesis
- Watergate Scandal
- Russian Spies Revealed Assassination Plot Against Former PM Karamanlis
- Translation: Courthouse Evidence: WUS Espionage against Greece
- Kaklamanis: Had Tsalikidis not been hanged in 2005, we would have learned nothing about the interceptions
- Human Rights Challenges for Telecommunications Vendors: Addressing the Possible Misuse of Telecommunications Systems
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- ECHR Orders Greece to Pay Damages Over Probe of Death in Wiretap Case
- Lawful Interception
- Vodafone Manager Tsalikidis Death in 2005 “Was Murder, Not Suicide” Prosecutor Finds
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- Privacy, Data Retention And Data Protection In The Electronic Communications Sector
- The Greek wiretapping scandal and the false promise of intelligence cooperation in the information era
- Vodafone-Panafon SA
- Angela Merkel among 125 German phones tapped by the NSA
Videos
- James Bamford discusses the “Athens Affair”
- People and Power Italy Gate Part 1 - People and Power documentary investigate the death of Adamo Bove in Italy in 2006.
- Greek gate E. Filippouli part 1 - Documentary on the Greek Vodafone Wiretapping scandal by Elizabeth Filippouli
- Greek gate E. Filippouli part 2
- Greek gate E. Filippouli part 3
Attribution
Darknet Diaries is created by Jack Rhysider.
Episode artwork by Caroline Matthews licened under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License through the Cyber Security Visual Challenge.
Theme music created by Breakmaster Cylinder. Theme song available for listen and download at bandcamp. Or listen to it on Spotify.
Equipment
Recording equipment used this episode was the Shure SM7B, a cloudlifter, Motu M2, Sony MDR7506 headphones, and Hindenburg audio editor.
Transcript
[FULL TRANSCRIPT]
JACK: [GREEK] Do you remember the Olympics of 2004?
ANNCR: Citizens of the world, welcome to Athens.
JACK: It was in Athens, Greece where the first Olympics ever took place.
ANNCR: Olympic Games, welcome back to Greece. [CHEERING] [GREEK]