NSA should stay out - ABC Online

To successfully defend yourself against hackers and spies, Telekom calls for a inndeutschen e-mail network. In times of the NSA scandal information between German transmitters and receivers should not leave the country’s borders.

The German Telekom wants to leave the German Internet traffic within the country’s borders to the customer from espionage to protect from abroad. To this end, Deutsche Telekom wants to agree with all important business partners in Germany, that e-mails and other information exchange are routed only through nodes within Germany and not about foreign nodes.

“Internet traffic knows no boundaries, data to are conducted all over the world, “said Telecoms Data Protection Officer Thomas Kremer over the” Rheinische Post “. “If transmitter and receiver are in Germany but we now want to reach that Internet traffic is also in Germany.”

No byte is to leave Germany

This should be prevented by technical means because the American and British intelligence agencies continue to read e-mails and other

information acting secretly customers in Germany. “When transporting between transmitters and receivers in Germany we want to guarantee that no byte Germany leaves and even temporarily exceed the limit,” Kremer said the “Business Week”.

For implementing the telecom According to the report requires the approval of all competitors . Therefore mainly international companies such as Vodafone and Telefónica currently checked carefully whether they want to participate in “National Routing”. The active exclusively in Germany operators QSC is skeptical. “The Internet can not identify unambiguously whether data is routed nationally or internationally,” said QSC Privacy Officer Thomas Boesel of “Business Week”.

Only Germany, then Europe

Since there were still technical and legal hurdles. In the medium term the German Telekom, a European solution – but without Britain. It’s called the “Schengen routing” – in allusion to the Schengen Agreement to abolish border controls stationary. “We should first show in Germany that this can work,” says Kremer the magazine.

div Telekom, United Internet and the brands GMX and Web.de in August had already launched the “e-mail Made in Germany “founded. The members undertake to encrypt the mail traffic of users with the SSL protocol and store the data in secure data centers in Germany. The German intelligence agencies under existing laws the possibility of domestic data and to tap telephone traffic.