April 9, 2006
NSA at AT&T: Universal monitoring apparently confirmed
An AT&T engineer has stepped forward, accusing the NSA of monitoring all AT&T internet traffic. EFF is suing the Feds accordingly.
Maybe this should be going on and maybe it shouldn’t, but one thing seems obvious to me — if it is going on, there should at least be a heckuva lot more transparency and disclosure.
Categories: Privacy, censorship, and freedom, Public policy and privacy
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[…] Back in February, CNet published an excellent article speculating on what exactly the NSA was tapping. (It’s also fascinating from a pure geekish perspective.) Their answer, in short, was “pretty much everything” — i.e., almost all international telecommunications in the world, and probably also at least the long-distance communications inside the US as well. Subsequent revelation of AT&T’s cooperation with NSA’s tapping of the backbone is very supportive of their analysis. Billing records would of course also be easy to obtain (at least in the US), although that point was only touched on in the article. Thus, we can regard it as highly likely the NSA has detailed information as to who calls or emails whom, when and for how long, and maybe even which websites they access, who they IM with, and so on. […]