I tried to contact the National Cyber ​​Security Agency. I discovered that the flagship of our digital defense does not have a phone number. Then I went to the switchboard to which the Presidency of the Parliament is connected and it responded immediately. After a three-minute wait accompanied by telephone flutes of Vivaldi’s Primavera, the switchboard operator, also from the Council Presidency, said, “The agency does not have a switchboard and the secretariat does not answer us.” moment”. Amine.

Frankly, leaders have no responsibility as they are the injured party in this situation. It is governments and Parliament that do not provide the minimum means necessary to protect our privacy: not even the telephone or switchboard operator. Even the American NSA’s headquarters at Fort George G. Meade in Maryland can be easily searched at any time. Instead, among the email contact information at the bottom of our agency’s corporate website, appears something incredible: “For interviews, invitations to events and shows.” Our embryo electronic secret service acted as if it were the artistic management of the Sanremo festival.

What does the Fiore team do and why is it dangerous?

Commenting on Today.it’s exclusive investigation into the secret network spying on Italians, some readers remember a proverb: ”Do no harm, do not fear”. As if worrying about files and trading confidential information was the fault of the victims, rather than the serious responsibility of institutions’ disloyal employees and former employees. This is a very dangerous idea because it legitimizes the State as the master, not the defender, of our private lives. The same thing happens with dictatorships: do not think badly of Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin or Kim Jong-un, and nothing will happen to you.

If our economy is losing parts and its future, it’s not just a problem of excessive labor costs (just ask people employed on permanent intern wages or subcontracted slaves). This is also the fault of the state, which, as our research in recent days has shown, does not protect its citizens, businesses, entrepreneurs in Italy and abroad.

In fact, special 007s punish foreign governments by turning a blind eye to the constant leak of information from their databases in favor of rival multinationals: possible terminals of the activity of the Fiore team, which acts like a secret secret service, from the closed office. Piazza Bologna in Rome (a brief look at the square in the photo above). This can translate into loss of orders, factory closures, loss of market share, and unemployment for everyone. Do nothing but harm, don’t be afraid.

Electronic invoices used to create files

If the Italian State were a private company that could not protect the personal data of its user citizens, as confirmed a few days ago by Perugia prosecutor Raffaele Cantone, its activities would be immediately suspended and its leaders would be subject to penalties. Huge sanctions and fines.

In this market of secrets, our privacy comes down to a matter of price. If I am an entrepreneur-politician about to become a minister, as happened to the co-founder of Fratelli d’Italia Guido Crosetto, or if my decisions are worth hundreds of millions of euros, as happened to possibly unwitting victims. A case initiated from within the government can cause careers to rise or fall, or cause an intercompany merger, a loan, a project to fail, the Fiore team said.

The government has digitized a significant part of economic activity with electronic invoicing. If stolen by disloyal staff, digital invoices can reveal industrial secrets, predict market strategies, and provide ammunition for blackmail and retaliation, starting from simple material procurement. For moles collecting confidential information, it is easier today than in the past to collect all invoices, information and data on central servers that can be accessed remotely.

That’s why they chase VIPs in bed with their lovers

It was said that the National Cyber ​​Security Agency should become the third Italian secret service, following the example of the American NSA: the structure that would defend the country’s interests in the digital sphere. But if everything else is stolen from within the state, from under the noses of institutions, and then resold abroad, perhaps abroad, there is no use (rightfully) raising the alarm about Russian hackers. These are also cybersecurity attacks. Even if it is made by natural persons who can possibly be identified through access codes to computer systems.

But it’s not just SOS reports that are intercepted, but also reports of suspicious transactions sent by banks, even if these are often properly declared as transfers. Among the most sought-after and highly paid news on the dossier black market are communications about hotel stays. Especially if the targeted VIP is accompanied by unofficial partners. Everyone who goes to a hotel or a rental house on the weekend actually needs to register with their own document. The names are then automatically transmitted to the local police station, which adds them to the central database of SDI, the Ministry of Internal Affairs’ investigation system. But the national police archive, protected by varying levels of access, is also one of the secret network’s most coveted targets. As we will explain in the next part of our research.

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