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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.'"
Yet another uneducated, irresponsible, politics driven media outlet that thinks it knows better than a highly trained and experienced judge and lawyers.
At what point will journalists in this country realize that we are a nation of laws? Those laws apply whether you politically disagree with what the current administration is doing or not. You don't get to flaunt them just because you think you know better. I personally hope that Wired gets it's ass handed to it for this one.
For those who would try and turn this around to point at the current administration, Let us all keep in mind that everything going on with the NSA is perfectly LEGAL. NO laws have been broken in the process here. Now, we may not LIKE what is going on, but not liking it doesn't make it illegal.
Besides, you don't make your point that someone else is breaking the law by breaking it yourself.
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Guess what, you are not the judge, you don't get to make that determination.
Funny how critics of the Bush Administration are all for "Law and Justice" until it actually applies to then. I guess the court system doesn't have any validity if it isn't doing what they want?
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.
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As an ex-Narus employee, this is a load of FUD. How many systems do you think it would take to capture the entire internet backbone every second? How much storage do you think it would take? Do you even consider what it would take, CPU horsepower wise, to capture maintain session state, filter and report on EVERY single communication protocol thread passing through the entire internet?
Personally, if the NSA, CIA, FBI or any other government agnecy, believes a terrorist organization is potentially using a segement of the internet and they want install fiber splitter to be able to filter and report on who they are talking to and what data they are passing, I, for one, am fully in favor of it.
And no, I really don't want to hear from the tree hugging, long hair hippy freaks who want to espouse their "Orwellian" big brother theories. If you want to do something illegal, don't use a telephone, cell phone or the internet. This has been true and will continue to be true. If you want to thwart the Narus (or any other) data capture and processing, encrypt your data. This has also always been true for land lines, cell phones and the internet.
The "Narus Lawful Intercept module" http://narus.com/products/lawful.html is fully covered under the FCC and all other lawful precepts covering communication interception for the purpose of legal activity.
Also see this: http://narus.com/solutions/intercept.html
A Narus STA is only running on a standrd Linux or Solaris system. It feeds an Oracle database back end, and has fairly rigid limits on the amount of data it can collect, store, and process. I can almost guarantee you that the STA's installed have very specific filter in place specifically defining, if not single hosts, single subnets for capture and analysis. Saying anything else is just some liberal with their panties in a wad that has no real clue about trying to sniff "the entire internet".
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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?