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UK: NSA-GCHQ: The HACIENDA Program for Internet Colonization

20 August 2014

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"In a new set of top secret documents seen by Heise, it is revealed that in 2009, the British spy agency GCHQ made port scans a "standard tool" to be applied against entire nations" (emphasis added)

See the article: The HACIENDA Program for Internet Colonization (heise online, link)

See: Original from GCHQ’s Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group (JTRIG): GCHQ: What is Hacienda? (pdf): All the results of country-wide scans are "stored in JTRIG's Internal database"

And see: Australia government pushing to expand surveillance, hacking powers (PI, link)

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