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Feds Have a High-Speed Backdoor Into Wireless Carrier

Posted by samzenpus on from the all-the-better-to-snoop-with dept.

An anonymous reader writes "An unnamed U.S. wireless carrier maintains an unfiltered, unmonitored DS-3 line from its internal network to a facility in Quantico, Virginia, according to Babak Pasdar, a computer security consultant who did work for the company in 2003. Customer voice calls, billing records, location information and data traffic are all allegedly exposed. A similar claim was leveled against Verizon Wireless in a 2006 lawsuit."

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  1. Re:CALEA by pushf+popf · · Score: 0, Troll

    And this surprises who?

    Don't do evil shit and you won't have to worry.

    In fact, if the gov't didn't have this capability, I'd say they weren't doing their job.

  2. Re:CALEA by pushf+popf · · Score: 0, Troll

    The point is that I don't live in China. I live in the US. And right here, right now, I couldn't care less if there's some guy sitting in an office in Virginia listening to my phone calls.

    If there comes a time when the US government starts acting like China (having people tortured and killed because of their political views), we can take care of it with something called an "election".

  3. Re:Read it again, you're still not getting it by Moofie · · Score: 0, Troll

    Sorry, I made you both have this whole conversation with the power or my mind. DANCE, MY LITTLE PUPPETS!

    --
    Why yes, I AM a rocket scientist!