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Wired Releases Full Text of AT&T NSA Document
ifitzgerald writes "This morning, Wired News released the full text of the AT&T NSA wiretap documents that are currently under court seal. From the article: 'AT&T claims information in the file is proprietary and that it would suffer severe harm if it were released.
Based on what we've seen, Wired News disagrees. In addition, we believe the public's right to know the full facts in this case outweighs AT&T's claims to secrecy.
As a result, we are publishing the complete text of a set of documents from the EFF's primary witness in the case, former AT&T employee and whistle-blower Mark Klein -- information obtained by investigative reporter Ryan Singel through an anonymous source close to the litigation. The documents, available on Wired News as of Monday, consist of 30 pages, with an affidavit attributed to Klein, eight pages of AT&T documents marked "proprietary," and several pages of news clippings and other public information related to government-surveillance issues.'"
Really? You mean political opponents and vocal critics being killed and imprisoned in eastern Europe during the cold war doesn't quite measure up to tapping a telephone line? I think you need to have your scales of justice recalibrated.
"Oh, you hate your job? There's a support group for that, it's called everyone, they meet at the bar."
Let me get this straight. The entire lot of you IT monkeys don't want the NSA or AT&T perusing through network traffic for fear of privacy concerns. That there is a double standard, isn't it?
I am sure each one of you has a policy in place to record/store all chat, FTP, and emails going through your enterprises. And you do it because, *gasp*, your CIO placed this policy into effect to avoid a couple things from happening.
Flying Spaghetti Monsters batman! We simply can't deviate from the CIO's orders for fear of being fired and the Flying Spaghetti Monster knows I need to have the latest ATI/Nvidia Pent-SLI rig for playing DOOM 5!
First, these policies that the Corp. can't be sued for your passing of Indian jokes disparaging their ability to code better and at 1/20 the cost of an American counterpart (yes, that means you!).
Second, that the Corp's trade secrets isn't "accidentally" FTP'd, SMTP'd, or P2P'd to the Chinese. "Yeah, that's it! I accidently sent those ultra top secret files detailing US military secrets to my email pen pal General Joe's Chicken! Damn that Outlook email autocomplete feature! I'll just use MicroSquish's re-call function and everything will be all right!"
Finally, these policies are put into effect to prevent losing market share or technological dominance in your respective industry. Else, your code becomes a commodity and then there are 1,000,000 Chinese retro-engineering your router/software/shoes and selling it for 1/3 of the cost of the real deal. Remember our good friends Huawei or New Barlun? Them dang Chinese will put everyone out of business if they don't "recognize" our IP. I heard the Chinese pay their employees in mis-spelled fortune cookies. I don't know about you but I'm deadly allergic to fortune cookies.
C'mon yea hypocrites! It's everywhere; what's bothersome is knowing you are being monitored. If you are doing something illegal/immoral/nasty/dumb/stupid maybe the NSA's monitoring system will make you think twice about doing it. If you are still intent, then perhaps you should find even sneakier ways of doing it instead of using a public system.
IT monkeys, let us unite and throw feces in the face of the true enemy! Uh, wait a sec, we have met the enemy and he is us!
There's got to be a compromise or we'll have Tariq "I've got boom-boom in my pants and I'm not afraid to use it!" al-DethWish al-Sadist living right next to you and me. Sure, we'll have backyard Bar-B-Ques together but will we be able to eat red meat and regale the good ole days living in fear of the A-Bomb instead of every single foreigner in our country?