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It's wonderful here What I brought to you is not so nice, but it's curious And funny The whole thing is based on a few on a few slides One of the few sites that were published by Edward Snowden and I correlated them and I found out how in Vienna are the posts of the NSA In Vienna are living 17,500 accredited diplomats And it's there's an ambassador on national level There's a US ambassador at the United Nations and there's an US ambassador at the Ossetian And if you multiply everything watches in the embassy by three then you see that The Location in Vienna is bigger than even even than New York Yeah, here we have the Questioned slide slides are Our Memoir because the narrative is told in pictures I Will zoom it in so as that you can read it In the title you see on the non-redacted things There is Vienna and there's the Vienna annex And on the right hand side you have a list which sees foreign said and several kryptonans and there's also a station in it Also, all right Station, this is the NSA station. It's not your little off both obviously. That's just the roof bit. Oops Shining up. It's here You see the my screen. Yeah, right No, can I do it? I don't know if you're from here from shim. Okay, I have to say That's how I have to do it. All right, all right, all right Okay, okay, we're here. All right, this It's the roof construction on the Embassy in the US in Vienna. This is the old version Let me show you the new version Okay That's all right shim. I'm getting the hang of it so This is the old one. Yeah, here we go No during my research the Austrian reporters Tried to look inside using infrared two weeks later crane came And you know covered the whole thing in a high high reflectivity cover and That's the equipment which Which is used by the Vienna station Beneath well, you can imagine what they're doing inside. So that's what it looks like in the flesh There it is, that's the embassy building Otherwise, you don't see much on the building nothing special Just really that weird house. Let's look at where it's looking If you zoom in here Then see man see on the horizon very feebly small tower At the very top on the horizon that will matter It's a radio antenna And I'll explain what that's all about That's the enna station So what are the other stations that we should be mentioned? What's the Vienna annex? Well for a long time we believed Can't see it clearly Long a lot of time we believed so once again, there's a Explanation on specifications Since on the embassy. There's there's another 400 megahertz The the fourth stage Antenna, but they're sort of Antenna's but they can send in all directions. So this is used by all the Secret Service Then there's the next station the NSA station which is Which we thought it was the Vienna annex Next a folder. All right next folder That's this thing here. That's this thing right here That's is me not really I'm talking about shim. Yeah, okay. All right So yeah, this is the NSA villa. That's the NSA villa Villa in the eighteenths level. It's above Vienna a great radio location. So that's the sort of Certificate of the house. So since 71 it's very old second-oldest Second-oldest embassy location after the embassy itself in Vienna Right What it looks like There's loads of weird things. We're not quite sure what's being used. It all looks very legacy the really interesting bit Is after the behind the facade Equipment we think there's the same equipment which is also on top of the house and the embassy But that wasn't very exciting so far. We already knew about this Right. Let's look at this. Well, I measured here using a thing simulation program What how is where could you reach from the villa using two gigahertz and as you can see You have you can cover a huge portion of Vienna and at the very bottom where it becomes weaker There's already the the airport. So that thing is it's in an excellent place for Radio, so the NSA villa once upon a time Was once upon a time just a regular analogue surveillance post in Vienna Well, otherwise They claim according to claims of the embassy they Open source they do open source intelligence Well, that means they look at television and newspapers Yeah, well That's all I want to say about that Right Struggling a bit here Next thing I want to show this as well Sorry, I have to move it again Reason I have it here. This is the special thing about this location. You can see over here Anyplace where where they have uplink and downlink satellite dishes nowhere else. I found what I found such dishes, which means So this means the standard piece of equipment Normally on every embassy. It's in Geneva. They have it in the UN mission. There's two such things on the roof That's the that's the internal direct communication links are completely standard with all embassies These They're in this villa in this random villa. It's a slightly hidden They used to have it elsewhere And these locations, which I will I'll show you now where that these used to be So I'm going to go over there Here So here we are. Yeah, well, it's getting a lot of photos later. It's coming. There's a lot of pictures. I think I'll manage from here Yeah That's what's over. It's the bus. All right I don't want to make sure I see the net with the bell It's because of my glass. I cannot quite see My sense of the growth just a lot of place. Okay. All right. Thank you very much Also, what's the here saying all right? Well, you can see here is the United Nations complex in Vienna these buildings right here There's another building here Is a tower this tower right here the tower is the so-called easy D tower That's the location of the embassy of the US the US With the new United Nations. So look at that picture Underneath the United Nations And the above three levels the US mission. I think this picture says everything So, all right, here we are Once again in the easy D tower This is the index of the levels on the lift as you can see 2237 and the last entry is in the 34th level that means No such agency here The top levels where it says welcome to his idea. There should be US mission But they were truthful They wanted to display it You can see the stars They Managed to put the stars in in but they weren't able to put the stripes in Yeah, and all right What's on the roof Once again this cute little house This time even a climatized version A little bit in front of it. You can see on the other side. There's another one That thing this is climatized the roof It's hermetically sealed It's just from the embassy from the mission You can only reach from the from the mission via the nose of it So you can't even relieve it if you look exactly on the roof There's once again this circular emitter That's their internal communication link Here we have the little roof from a three different perspective That's a hundred and fifty meters up Really different angle as you can see here There's the second Second entry is as the exit and on the other side There's the air input air inflow There's no those are not antennas as you can see here There's the cameras and up there. There's a dish That dish is not a surveillance dish, but that's That's an astrosat dish. What does that tell us the US mission? They're not UPCT cable customer since they have the whole What had the whole tower using their cable vision? All right, these pictures are pretty interesting From above you can see No one thought of looking at this before even though it has been existing for ten years All right, you can see a little bit more exactly what it is But that's how we could identify it. They have you can be certain dipoles and we can guess about the frequency It's about 500 megahertz so Around the NATO tetra funk frequency range so something like that. They'll use they are using all right Let's move on You can see the ascent to the Building and you can only access it from behind. There are two lifts They all come from the subterranean garage and two lifts are completely exclusive For the US Representatives the one doesn't completely go up So not everyone in the US representation can go to the top Not a surprise different levels security levels Conspiracies Why some can go in some card? Yeah, right What happened there is the following Why is the 34th floor free? Why the tower has been filled until the last story? Many moved out after it the Austrian power grid was direct on the story below it They moved voluntarily in the midst of the tower the thermal Baxter Which was in the 34th floor moves in another tower right next to each other Why is it happening? there is a Simple cause for that because their cell phones weren't working. They are large-scale radio destruction Disturbations That led to Misfunctioning of the cell phones and therefore they moved out What I heard from the people was Only not only the cell phones aren't working, but for a short amount of town A short amount of time is GSM 900 and GSM 1800 UMTS is not working And simultaneously the UKW radio is not working What can it be? It's the same phenomena that my friends and radio emitters are Observing at the airport that when the American limousines arrive Then the traffic controllers Are sweating because everything is shaky and no radio is operating. They have Jammers there against improvised bombs from the Iraq They built a Very large series of that. They are ultra wideband scanners and they are really well because they even Disturb UKW radio Ornately what's going on it? They are it's really good equipment because they are always in use when High-ranked officials are arriving So the house again Now we are guessing what is inside that building Are such dishes of that sort If you look at it I'm a booted to stamen that seems from such company That are That they are programmable on to GSM 800 GSM 900 1800 and So they can use both American and European frequency. They are really flexible The the the thing she's practically with the feet ran in this thing feeds the antenna Into the dish and then emits Equipment saying the that really needs to be the equipment, which is in there Because we saw it all so in no way in Sweden Operate very broad Netson for radio intelligence in the mobile networks Place they do network mapping they collect network identifiers. They collect they scan for different And user devices it is seems to be a routine Operations They are doing it passive because Are easily detected phone to have and people using crypto phones Are easily visible and in Sweden gross flechig auf gefallen in our and Sweden there they To name it was this in we were an aggressive They've found it in large scale that crypto phones are used in nowhere in Sweden and Even in the Vienna collection office if the special collection office is Operating on one place in the world then it is in Vienna because in Vienna there is the international atom agency There are the talks With the Iran there is the OSCE in Berlin according which Works on the Ukrainian crisis Reminds us of the in time of times of the Cold War And then is there is a cause Absolute to use it anywhere then in Vienna. There's high-profile targets in Austria Specialists are deployed there instead of Full-take on fibers There's no central Central node in the network There's only some points of presence of telecoms to collect it, but the Large-scale of data is not be able to collect it there But 70% are going towards Frankfurt To the DCs in Frankfurt Then they are sitting in Darmstadt in the Dagger complex and Are retrieving the data anywhere? And the business is emerging and the business object in Austria I will present it at the very last This is the easy detour These locations what I told you They are looking at each other Direct high bandwidth netlinks are possible It is easily possible to transfer data from one station to another For that you are needing relay stations In former times the NSA Villa took that role Today there is a nicer relay station and I will show you now Paradox thing about this thing is it's actually part of the Network This light is especially interesting it contains all the information I just talked about They cover all the Bands including GSM UKV everything you can configure them in various configuration including focus range and Everywhere It's specialized to be put in one of these boxes And apparently these devices are standardized across all NSA outpost So what I just showed you today is probably also the same thing they run in Berlin And it's also clear that Depending on where it's directed It will also communicate with other entities Politician from the Green Party Has always been saying that the NSA Villa has been watching One of the Etzerbeck houses houses on the Etzerbeck, so we're wondering why would they want to watch it? Let's look at it Let's look at the kind of bands they use on this hill Next to folder on next folder here here we go So Here we have the same picture as before let's zoom a little bit in and let's see if you can Detective in the landscape. There's this tiny Vertical line, I don't know if you can see it Look at it. I don't know if you can identify it. That's the thing That is Radio tower in exit on the hill of Exiback Was built in the 60s it's Has been obsolete rather quickly It's a 7.4 gigahertz Antennas it's an emergency band for the Austrian government it goes from Vienna to Salzburg Through all of Austria This band would be used in the case of emergency for communication for example if they would be required to hide in a atomic shelter or And these are then and this is in the Sean nach Wien rein so we're picking these antenna directed towards Vienna Let's look at these antennas Would I mal sagen they're not really special antennas? They cried down there. That's John Timnich already used one of the for gliding It's warm so it's all done. So now why should All the NSA houses Direct they The antennas towards this tower. There's nothing interesting on there. Everything is just backup services and Airport security backup, and it's just a backup. So you don't even you probably don't need to use it You can get it in many other places The thing is if you think The most people think if there's an antenna directed towards something the NSA is interested in spying on it But you should not allow to forget that they also need a broad-boned uplink So right now we're just speculating of course We'll get towards the measurements later So I'm presuming these two sets of antennas on the important part for the story Luckily These dishes always if you look at these dishes, they always unveil where they directed and what kind of band they're using They always have to look somewhere short nach Wien rein These antennas are directed towards Vienna Let's see what the mapping looks like So All right Can you see? You see the ICD tower and UN buildings the American Embassy and the NSA villa and in the back the Tower the Atsenberg Radio tower I Rebuilt this in Google 3d and You're able to see that the nose Of the ICD tower Really looks towards To the tower So this was mean it must be their broadband network connection and Just look at it. It must be smartly designed. They must have chosen these points in a way or under the point that they easily connectable to each other These points are really high up. So there's not a single point in Vienna. That's not Can be reached Bestens the sugar egg. So what are they using these points for? right, they're perfect to Also, also the UN complex up to transport the perfect to transport data that you just took from the UN complex and Transfer them back to the US So this point pretty much is perfect to filter out UN data So I just assume it must be used for it. It's just too perfect And this is probably triangle in which they send around the data So the pathfinding is probably done in the top tower of the top part of the IC tower and I think this because of rumors that they constantly expanding This center, so they started with one story and now then three of them In the beginning of the year Even though the towers only ten years old They got a completely new air conditioning system They're supposed to this on Facebook And I was Transported there by helicopters So I can only assume they're extending their Data Processing system Especially nobody would exchange a Climate system after only ten years if you wouldn't have changed something in the heat output so It's quite likely that the data processing and done in the top of the ISCD tower And it's constantly extended the architect of the tower Put out a job offer on Facebook And even the press jumped onto it because if it's on Facebook even the normal press can research is And they were looking for an Austrian guy who is quite skilled in in Technological matters and So he was looking for a guy who could support the Americans with their endeavor to extend So this must clearly be a hint there's something going on and a villa This is It's much bigger than the stuff that went on with the NSA villa And Back when the whole NSA villa thing came up American the Americans said To the press or to the people that they should not be worried about it too much because they'll probably give it up soon And it's probably clear why the NSA villa is Nicely located but still in the forest. So it's not that good for a broadband connection The number of people going up into the ICD tower is increasing So it looks like the NSA villa Employees are slowly moving into the ICD tower So it looks like the data processing is also from in the basement of the NSA villa is slowly moved into the tower as well So these are all the Yo, thanks for 2013. All right here. We have another thing. So once again an open-street map You can see it even better. All right, as you can see ICD tower To excel back. There's just a single line. It's like directly over the top of the villa As I said, that's what it looks like. I'm convinced In the direction here in the center city center. There's additional branches Sure, there are some interesting data to exfiltrate while I've heard that the Americans They are less interested in the Austrian government, but more important things IE the United Nations That's why they're putting all this effort in Not not because they like the coffee in Vienna That's the point That's what we managed to figure out what they do is Obvious obviously had to do something to do with mobile Data so everything else wouldn't make any sense in this situation What if you put under other equipment in there? So it's very obvious that the NSA Dishes in the NSA villa up link or down link since Signals intelligence, they do it elsewhere, which is I'm going to show you now Oh in Vienna busso in Vienna, not in Vienna, but a little outside actually, not in Vienna, but slightly outside All right So now I have to push it over again Rejig it slightly Just gross machen Have to launch this Consumers cross-making I said I'm fine in links Yeah, past okay, this is the ground book. All right once again. Here's a stiff kit of Station Koenig's water which is a station directly on the Slovakian border As you can see I'll show you what it looks like as we can see Republic of Austria is You know belongs to the belongs to the military 6,000 square meters Sometime 1981 was it was bought so it's an old listening post of the Americans That was the Warsaw Alliance border, so it's it's one kilometer from the Warsaw Curtain, so that's where they had their radio surveillance and the Slovakians Were sitting on a hill five five kilometers on the other side and they had theirs on the other side, so These are the old sort of war games So well once the cold was over Suddenly they had a sort of radio surveillance point But render all around was there was only NATO so Hungarian Slovakia Czechs like yeah Well, hmm, so they were wondering Should we surveil the NATO and now let's do something else and that's what they're doing right now Well, they built a little a few things there So those are the objectives Those are the data links of Civil communication satellites, so this is a very new model This is sat k a Satellite, it's a completely data only So this is not TV at all But this is not This one only has only data The cool thing is you can change the dishes So you can configure the Illumination areas so you can say all right Let's put the uplink to Afghanistan and then send the dial link to the net That's exactly what they're for and exactly this thing They're being used for All right, I'll show you the slides later. They're more for reading Aha, here we are That's what's there now Also, you see me as you can see a very impressive Set of mirrors we will see in a moment how big they are So in total there's 18 of them we can see only see a part here These are the most exterior ones these three These is especially these two they look very far to the east very far I guess Approximately 20 grad west about 20 degrees East west to about 60 degrees east. We'll see it again in a moment And you can see the comparison of the size As you can see they're pretty big that little car over there There's little SUV right there If you zoom in a little bit There's a you know Number plate for your Austrian army, you know, it's casually happened to be taken a picture Did a colleague of mine and they They have a very sort of romantic view over the Piece of Austria and you know as it happened this thing was next to it. Oh Well, you know, this could be interesting for Eric, so here we go and that's how I got these pictures That's how it began in summer. All right Uh-huh Back one Yeah, here we go If you look at this That's the that stuff here. That's not cheap These dishes are all heated They all have automatic Adjustment motors They have two sets of sensors So I see if you can see if I look if you can see them slightly hidden on the borders and the edges so these sensors They measure the humidity and the temperature and once The humidity sensor Senses a little bit of water on the lens So you have to add these are Casa gran type mirrors, which means single processing does not happen up there, but behind the antenna that means the antenna are Sort of sent through to the lens system behind the antenna and use the process there So what's different different with the other types of mirrors where at the front there's a Processing unit in these cases. It's behind So these have to 15 minutes you will see the here the motors moving Since the third sensor is a sat tracker it says oh the satellite Is moving in a subtle figure of eight you have to adjust automatically But as you can imagine there's quite a bit of controlling Sense in There's a whole there's a whole rack. It's slightly taller than me So once the humidity sensors senses a little bit of humidity on the mirror the nothing has is allowed to be wet Immediately there's a hot air Hot air jet to blow off The humidity from the lens so that it once again shines that means These things consume a ridiculous amount of energy Even if they're just reception antennas, so I calculated What it might cost? to use them and I used it using the Swiss onyx stations who also have one of these echelon type stations so I estimated it based on that they They cost about about 200 million Swiss France so that that's what they used So this thing It's much more modern So once we probably don't need as big mirrors as you needed 15 years ago so maybe you can subtract a bit but below 150 million definitely Won't be able to do this with all the little bits and pieces that belong and it carries on So in the in the full beauty you can't see it from these pictures There's a there's a close-up So why do they have ladders there? That you know they don't belong to the antennas. They'd have the letters there since Well, I work for a for an entity For an entity they have a lot of satellite technology and And the experts said and they explained me to me They have they have to be a lot of ladders there why they have to continuously readjust it So for example, they get an order And he's we want that or we want this so then they go up there and they change a few things focus it refocus it the mirrors are that accurate But you need at least one day Until you are tuned to a single satellite It's like It's like a massive telescope where you are trying to Hit a very small small window Otherwise, you don't know where you are. So that's what these mirrors like They're not they're not they're not it's not like the satellite is saying how here's the other side. Here's my data So you have a satellite, but you don't know what satellite it is So they are very very very close to each other at least you know less than two degrees at the There's a lot of geostationary satellites They're all around the equator and these dishes look at one after the other So this station is not insulated. It's not is on its own part of the US echelon system There's no satellite Spinar station, which is on its own Completely foolish to think about that. You have Need at least four or five of these in a row On the various elastudes So now imagine Benix Ward 17 degrees east bad eye bling 10 degrees east Schoeningen 18 degrees east And Schöningen and Schöningen They're together put together there about as big as this Koenigstrasse just imagine what kind of size it has That's what we can once again see from a few more Photographies what's now so this is two data links These are terrestrial data links and you can see using the people how big they are so this model right here has five Meters of diameter. It's the biggest model that the the femur even builds and delivers So this data link goes far north To a military location where there's also aero surveillance and this thing has to go over 40 kilometers And that's why it's so big. So this other one points directly to the airport And to the Barracks behind it. So that's Maybe I'm not sure What's happening on these links They belong to the probably belong to the Austrians Federal aircraft They had a Cost reduction program and there were many discussions about that there's enough for the fuel of the Eurofighter jets and for aircraft as space surveillance Estimated operation costs of Koenigstrasse are 10 million per year Estimated from the Swiss coasts it uses power you can't imagine So we are now looking at some others So these are It was a little bit more difficult to take this shot It's done. It was done from the air It is south. They're all looking at south in the southern direction They're all lined up in one row and they are picking up some of the sets Which are interesting to them only for information This thing see these Afghans at things Sees this until Afghan satellites and Pakistan said The half northern Africa half of the far east there where are no Fast data links telecoms from the mobile telecoms are using it, especially mobile data network operators To do roaming cable For bindings where there are no good cable connections. The delay is usually not a problem For such connections. It's usually not important to such connections during the last ten years Internet Internet connections had a massive boom Every ship in the Mediterranean which has internet access Uses a satellite connection Every ship in the Parisian Gulf Uses satellite uplinks from here and here are they intercepting the data Here are they Getting the real interesting things If you're doing foreign surveillance Then it should be at least targeted. It's not untargeted They take it full they record metadata from the North African telecoms here Targeted The building was painted with a radio absorbing material On the last photo there were construction rain Signs of construction on the last photo Here's it was awesome. Austin. We are doing it from the east now The boy with this Aircraft Was Inside the Slovakia Yeah, you're looking at three big dishes I think The middle one is looking at to riot to Telephone satellite from Abu Dhabi Here and the charm another is not Looking the same man from Austin überhaupt net at something which is not visible from the east You can go around And there's even a viewing platform Which Austria is the only country with an Sightseeing platform where you can look at the antennas. It is a hiking area like the Toifelsberg in Berlin You see that there must be something Subterranean for example a maintenance entrance There is a thing with power supply It is no flower Boxes it is air outflows. There are air Inflat takes There is an entrance to the subterranean garage You have to look it from From this side from an aerial photo because it is not accessible from The surface there must be some installation below it They need to have something there to for processing and signal processing for the data which they are acquiring It is linked up with fiber optic cables like all our standard is like all sides of the federal army in some Presentation the federal army said that all sites are enabled with glass fiber optic links Look at how many air condition is there three on the roof one in the middle where there is a hole For air exchange for heat and there is even construction going on in the lower part of the picture It is at least 1,500 square meters of bunker in one story Of course underneath every military building there are bunkers It is easily to detect military installations because I have a huge basement made of concrete So that's it Yeah, yes Now I have to go back to the slides Now we'll come to the conclusion part of the talk This is this is here There we go How to go back one all right Now that's what I'm sure all right. Oh, I have it All right The Austrians and technology I see she said I'm so much like that and I just have a problem seeing it All right now Please back to slides all right, thanks young people I know how to work it Sorry You can see the photos all right. Can you see one of these Snowden slides of the proofs it can't add in partners and now Why sauce John there? Well, you should seen it It's pretty clear if you look at all the facilities they have Station clinics water is Often found on the first slides under one of the Naming name so we're not really sure which it is, but we're pretty sure it must be one of them And another one is probably but the one looking at him but I bling and Son then meet Partners filing All right Yeah It's good with the mouse, but also not to use the mouse. This year is not so clear So we have tire be status. It's called computer network in computer network operations operations So it means they cooperate and their computer network corporations or operations So that's what we could find in these lights And this is Really worrying me because it's it can clearly only be used or done to attack other states intelligence Since Austria is a neutral state We shouldn't be allowed to do that. We have a neutral Contract with all these countries You're up and in Asia we considered a neutral state in in most of the world and now we Damaging this or we breaking the law Because if the Americans forcing us or getting us into trouble and in the end We're the ones that are breaking the law even though they're clearly building all these stations Answers all right now So we'll get we'll just give you some contact details and we'll go straight over the question and answer section You can reach me here If you only have photos I talked Creative commons to my company and most of them can be available under creative commons You can you're free to share it under creative commons including the Pictures so please clap For the Austrians and All right, here we go You can find all the articles Talked about and here gets an upload form. I also have an upload form fast all the photos come in there over rein and All of the photos bring edge were uploaded using this form here's some keys and The slides already online. I just have to unlock them We probably shouldn't overdo this for too long so Just one two minutes of question. Are there any like really burning questions Please go to microphone number two All right, I just wanted to point out that in Vienna the OPC of the Producing countries also have a location there. Have you thought about other locations? For example the stiffed sparrows or under other locations where the your Austrians might be helping I need more crowdsourcing support. I'm just one person and I would love to look at these places and From now on Before everybody's leaving Now we're getting into measuring And be prepared. I'll be back with actually measurement results What the good one I don't mind awesome internet with the same hamster signal angel could you There's a question from the ISE Well, have you ever tried to use infrared camera for these pictures and to We haven't tried it yet and the long answers The last time a journalist tried this There was It's really sick But the america name support actions Americans reacted rather quickly Using After three weeks all the sudden they had an anti tempest cover for this Okay, then we'll have another question and then last question I'll talk about before the question if it's okay, please take your bottles with you Yesterday on the evening again, at least two boxes of bottles were taken out that we had in the free Please take your bottles with you There's a stopoff point for you. That's your name. Please make sure to take home your bottles because yesterday way We had to remove three crates of them. All right regarding the ICD tower. Couldn't it be that other states? Also doing defense there and therefore they are already in that direction. Therefore. There's no mobile phone reception That's a really good point It's also you could also see the other way They're pretty much out there in the open and it could also just be possible that other Nations just is pissed and then they aim all these Gepündel draufkneiden Towards the point and that's a really good point. I always forgot to mention it It could also be it As long as they think they can play war on our networks and on our bands I'll be there watching Every information that's leaked to the Publicity will make it more and more financially