According to the blog's comprehensive breakdown of the NSA slides that Spiegel based its reporting on, properly configured IPsec based VPNs are okay.
Spiegel, based in Downers Grove, Ill., sells clothing and domestic products.
But on Wednesday, Spiegel issued a report, based on one of the many investigations taking place at Volkswagen and around the world, saying that at least thirty managers were involved in the cheating.
Some call the process Merkelism, defined by the columnist Roland Nelles in the weekly Der Spiegel as politics "based on two principles".
Her comments were made on Saturday, the day the New York Times and Der Spiegel published reports, based on documents leaked by Edward Snowden, that said the US National Security Agency had inserted "back doors" into networks maintained by the Chinese telecoms giant Huawei.
That Spiegel report was based on an interview with Abdel-Jalil el-Sharnoubi, a former editor of the Brotherhood's Web site, who said that Mr. Morsi had used the same words about Zionists in 2004 and had never objected to hate speech against Jews on the site.
The aphorism came up a lot last week following publication by the Guardian, the New York Times and Der Spiegel of extensive reports based on the stash of classified US military reports published on the WikiLeaks website.
She said that if there ever were a film based on Spiegel's life, the actor who played him would not have to look like him but would have to have his charm.
But the online edition of the German newsmagazine Der Spiegel and The Guardian, based on leaks from Edward J. Snowden, the former American intelligence contractor, reported on Saturday that the spying and data collection included the European Union offices in Brussels and Washington, which struck many here as unlikely places to find terrorists.
Effecten-Spiegel, based in Düsseldorf, bought EM.TV shares on the stock exchange over several years for a total of 10.9 million euros ($12.9 million) because it saw it as "a very interesting investment" especially after EM.TV teamed up with other investors to buy the German sports TV channel DSF, Bolko Hoffmann, chief executive of Effecten, said.
