Here in the UK if you make a phone call or send an email, then it will find its way into the surveillance network formerly known as "Echelon" which also monitors much of the phone and email traffic of the rest of Europe.

Supposedly the network is used purely for security purposes, but confidential commercial information is obviously very valuable, and this will obviously be used to enhance the financial interests of various terrorist states.

Seems worrying that there has been no mention of this rather more serious form of hacking anywhere I have seen recently, and this site continues to publish "news" from various SIG's which in the scheme of things is generally only of interest to members of the single interest groups posting.