http://www.monashreport.com/2006/04/09/nsa-at-att-universal-monitoring-apparently-confirmed/ Technology ... politics ... marketing ... strategy ... life Tue, 10 Aug 2010 08:37:43 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.monashreport.com/2006/04/09/nsa-at-att-universal-monitoring-apparently-confirmed/#comment-112 The Monash Report»Blog Archive » What the NSA is doing Sat, 29 Apr 2006 02:54:12 +0000 http://www.monashreport.com/?p=49#comment-112 [...] 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. [...] [...] 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. [...]

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