AT&T Seeks to Hide Spy Docs

UltimaGuy writes to mention a Wired article about some AT&T documents that have gone off the farm. An ex-employee provided some information to the EFF, to assist in their wiretapping case against the company. Ma Bell is now arguing the files are confidential, and shouldn't be used in a court case. From the article: "The documents, which the EFF filed under a temporary seal last Wednesday, purportedly detail how AT&T diverts internet traffic to the National Security Agency via a secret room in San Francisco and allege that such rooms exist in other AT&T switching centers."

Comments

This proves it, of course.

[Malor]

The submitter didn't point out that if AT&T is claiming the documents are trade secrets, that means they're accurate. Made-up documents wouldn't be trade secrets.

In other words, AT&T has just admitted that they are spying on you.

Re:Solution: Philip Zimmermann's Zfone

[CRCulver]

It's good to see that Zimmerman believes strongly in making the source code available. When PGP was first released, Zimmerman disseminated the source as widely as possible, even having it printed and bound. One of the reasons PGP went downhill after it was taken over by a large corporation was the decision to give customers a security product with no way of knowing it was secure.

error: it's "Land of the Fee"

[Anonymous Coward]

It used to be written with an "R" but for the last 6 years it has been changed without the public knowledge. Now it's the land of FEE FEE FEE PAY PAY PAY, sucker! We own You! Your supreme corporate chairman organization.

Re:Doesn't help fight terrorism

[typical]

The problem is that this system is targeted at terrorism, but with the patriot act, it allows all this power to actively be used against americans.

History teaches us that this should not be a surprise. Give the federal government excessive police powers ("But we need to hunt *communists*!") and they *will* abuse it.

Hitler was ahead of his time. We already tried claiming that we needed expanded police powers to hunt "communists". Now we're claiming that we need them to hunt "terrorists". Hitler just took the Reichstag fire and demanded more powers because he needed to hunt "communist terrorists".

Irresistible fallacious cheap shot

[Beryllium Sphere(tm)]

If ATT's not doing anything wrong, what have they got to hide?

Re:Doesn't help fight terrorism

[Savantissimo]

"what makes you think that this limited to ATT"

It isn't. An elite BellSouth tech with 30+ years experience told me about a similar secret monitoring room in downtown Atlanta he had worked on in the mid-to-late '90s. He implied that it was FBI-run, but that there was no effective company monitoring of the extent of the tapping.