Bernard Barbier, a former head of the French signals intelligence service, shared a few stories with students of CentraleSuplec, the elite engineering school from which he graduated in 1976. He said he caught the U.S. National Security Agency delving into computers at the Elyse Palace, residence of French president, for example. Barbier’s revelations can’t really be called a scoop, as the Canadian and Elyse hacks had been widely reported. They have, however, never been officially confirmed.”]