Wikileaks udgiver "spion filer russia", afsløre Kremlins masse overvågningssystem
WikiLeaks udgivet en trov af dokumenter under overskriften "Spy filer Rusland"19. september 2017. Filerne viser, at Moskva driver et sofistikeret statsligt overvågningsapparat til overvågning af sine egne borgeres internetaktivitet og mobilkommunikation.
Løsladelsen var ironisk. Det landede midt i en konstant trommeslag af krav fra politikere og mainstream butikker at WikiLeaks og dens grundlægger, Julian Assange, blev på en eller anden måde påvirket eller kontrolleret af Kreml, da organisationen havde brugt år primært afsløre amerikanske hemmeligheder. At vende linsen mod Ruslands egen spionmaskine skar direkte mod den fortælling.
Uanset motivationen, kastede lossepladsen rigtigt lys over hvor lidt privatliv Det har almindelige russere faktisk. NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, der afslørede sammenlignelige masse overvågning af USA, vejede ved udgivelsen på sociale medier:
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Hvad er der inde i wikileaks "spion filer russia"?
Udgivelsen bestod af omkring 209 dokumenter - 34 basisdokumenter i forskellige versioner - dateret mellem 2007 og 2015, mange af dem på russisk. De er alle centreret på et St. Petersborg software firma kaldet Peter- Service (Петер-Сервис), founded in 1992 to provide billing solutions to Russian telecommunications companies. According to WikiLeaks, the company grew into a contractor whose infrastructure lets Russian state agencies tap into citizens’ online and electronic activity. Snowden’s interest made sense, since the NSA had built a strikingly similar capability against Americans.
I sit resumé WikiLeaks Formand angivet:
PETER-SERVICE is uniquely placed as a surveillance partner due to the remarkable visibility their products provide into the data of Russian subscribers of mobile operators, which expose to PETER-SERVICE valuable metadata, including phone and message records, device identifiers (IMEI, MAC addresses), network identifiers (IP addresses), cell tower information and much more. This enriched and aggregated metadata is of course of interest to Russian authorities, whose access became a core component of the system architecture.
So what does that translate to in practice? A textbook “Big Brother” scenario. WikiLeaks reported that Peter-Service claimed access to the majority of all phone-call records as well as internet traffic in Russia, and that the company could see detailed information about a resident’s phone usage and online payments.
Den grundlæggende arkitektur af Peter- Service software (SVC _ BASE) angiveligt bundtet sammen komponenter til lagring af data (DRS), langtidsopbevaring bundet til SORM, IP- trafik analyse gennem et system kaldet Trafikdatablad — which records and monitors IP traffic for every mobile device on the network — and adapter interfaces that let state agencies pull from those archives. A 2013 presentation went further, introducing a deep-packet-inspection product dubbed DPI*GRID, hardware the company claimed could inspect traffic at 10 gigabytes per second per unit. Notably, that presentation was written just months after Snowden exposed the NSA’s own programs.
Det er værd at understrege, at dokumenterne ikke udtrykkeligt navngive Ruslands spion agentur, FSB, instead referring broadly to “state agencies.” But that distinction offers little comfort: SORM — the System for Operative Investigative Activities (Система Оперативно-Розыскных Мероприятий) — is by law built and maintained in cooperation with the FSB and the Interior Ministry. Russian communications providers are required to install SORM equipment at their own expense and grant security services access. Crucially, as WikiLeaks pointed out, Russia’s then-new Yarovaya Law drew effectively no line between lawful, court-ordered interception and warrantless bulk surveillance.
Nogle observatører var hurtig til nedspil the leak, arguing that the broad outlines of SORM were already public knowledge and that the files added few genuinely new revelations. Even so, Russian investigative journalist Andrei Soldatov noted that any fresh technical detail about SORM is valuable precisely because the system is so deliberately opaque. The full set of documents remains posted on the WikiLeaks website her.
Hvordan overvågningsstaten voksede
SORM was never static. It dates to 1995 and evolved through distinct generations: SORM-1 captured telephone and mobile communications, SORM-2 (rolled out in 1999) added interception of internet traffic, and SORM-3 — expanded in 2014 — pulled in social media and deep-packet inspection. That trajectory only accelerated in the years after the leak. The 2016 Yarovaya “anti-terror” package forced operators to store the content of calls and messages for up to six months and metadata for years. A 2019 “sovereign internet” law gave the regulator Roskomnadzor the power to install its own filtering equipment, known as TSPU, directly inside provider networks.
After Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, that machinery hardened into a full censorship regime. Independent platforms such as Facebook and Instagram were branded “extremist” and blocked, and by 2024 the Kremlin began throttling and then effectively blocking YouTube. The state has waged an escalating war on VPNs and, more recently, pushed a state-controlled messaging “superapp” called MAX, widely described by digital-rights researchers as a tool to surveil Russians — and Ukrainians living under occupation. The 2017 Spy Files, in other words, captured an early snapshot of a system that has since metastasized.
AFSLUTTENDE ANLIGGENDER
At the time, WikiLeaks faced relentless accusations of being a Kremlin asset — a narrative pushed hardest by those eager to explain away the 2016 leak of Democratic National Committee emails. It’s worth separating the verifiable record from the noise. U.S. intelligence agencies, special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, and the bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee all concluded that Russian state-linked hackers were behind the DNC breach and passed the material to WikiLeaks. The competing theory that murdered DNC staffer Seth Rich was the source was never substantiated; Fox News retracted the story it had run, and the network later settled a lawsuit brought by Rich’s family. Conflating a debunked conspiracy with WikiLeaks’ actual publishing record does the organization no favors.
Hvad Spy Files Rusland virkelig demonstreret er, at WikiLeaks var villig til at offentliggøre skadelige dokumenter om Moskva 's overvågningsapparat, ikke bare Washington' s. Uanset hvad man tænker om Assange - hvem var Endelig befriet i juni 2024 after pleading guilty to a single U.S. charge and returning to Australia — the leak underscored an uncomfortable truth that applies to nearly every powerful government: mass surveillance of ordinary people has become the rule rather than the exception, and citizens are usually the last to know the full extent of it.
