AT&T Accidentally Leaks NSA Suit Information

op12 writes "CNET has an article describing how AT&T accidentally leaked sensitive information involving the NSA lawsuit. From the article: 'AT&T's attorneys this week filed a 25-page legal brief striped with thick black lines that were intended to obscure portions of three pages and render them unreadable. But the obscured text nevertheless can be copied and pasted inside some PDF readers, including Preview under Apple's OS X and the xpdf utility used with X11. The deleted portions of the legal brief seek to offer benign reasons why AT&T would allegedly have a secret room at its downtown San Francisco switching center that would be designed to monitor Internet and telephone traffic. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, which filed the class action lawsuit in January, alleges that room is used by an unlawful National Security Agency surveillance program.""

Comments

Re:Here's why _you_ should dismiss the case...

[damian cosmas]

You're wrong. FACT #1: Novak wrote the column. Cheney and Libby Scooter leaked it to him, read the court documents and get your information correct.

Not to get too pedantic, but you're still wrong.

You previously said" "How about the person who reported the Plame leak?". I point this out because you seem unaware of it.

That means either the guy who wrote the column (Novak), or the person who reported that Novak wrote the column. I'll read the court documents if you read what YOU ALREADY SAID! If you'd said "how about the person who leaked Plame's name" then you'd be correct, but you didn't. This makes you, not me, wrong.

Think then type. Click on "Preview" before clicking on "Send".

FACT#2 Cryptography such as PGP is unbreakable as it is known. Assume? We know the breakdown of that term.

All the claims I've read of PGP qualify "Unbreakable" with terms such as "virtually", "nearly", "as good as", &c, and it certainly isn't advertised as unbreakable. Search pgp.com for the word "unbreakable". I dare you. Regardless, if the NSA can break PGP, it would be stupid to publicize that fact. Presumably it would be classified, or at least not publicized.

Forgive me for trivializing the claim followed by the words: "golly gee Wilbur", but I did give the correct requirements for "unbreakable cryptography".

FACT#3 If the NSA should decide to sniff encrypted traffic, and if by slight chance they had enough disk space and time to break the message, chances are, within the amount of time needed to break the encryption, an act of terrorism would have been acted out making their sniffing worthless.

FACT? No. Assumption on your part, and as you so eloquently observed, we all know the break-down of that term, except insofar as you attempt to apply it to me. Also, I wouldn't be overly concerned about the NSA having enough disk space.

Re: BarefootGenius

[dalroth5]

Oh dear. Another person who formerly swooned over the American Dream has now grasped the American Reality (Show). It's a pity s/he doesn't yet seem to have grasped that what the US overlords can do, any overlord can do including the NZ overlords and--what with our 'special relationship' and all--my own.

Yes of course there are many decent people in the US, just as there are in NZ, here and everywhere else. But the rest of the world doesn't experience those people, we experience US culture, which is a loathsome creation encouraging humans to place their own personal greed, self-indulgence and basest desires before everything and everyone else. It's really no surprise that the US government exemplifies the culture of which it is a product.

The sooner the USA falls apart from its own internal divisions and power struggles, the better off the world will be.

Go right ahead, mod me to hell. I really couldn't care less. :)