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To: shades who wrote (14541)4/9/2006 3:17:04 PM
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Shades, Defense Tech has been covering the covert surveillance story for years. In many ways, including the notorious Echelon program.

The site has a series of stories going 'way back, the latest of which is here:

How AT&T Helped the NSA Snoop

"While doing my job, I learned that fiber optic cables from the secret room were tapping into the Worldnet (AT&T's internet service) circuits by splitting off a portion of the light signal," Klein wrote.

The split circuits included traffic from peering links connecting to other internet backbone providers, meaning that AT&T was also diverting traffic routed from its network to or from other domestic and international providers, according to Klein's statement.

The secret room also included data-mining equipment called a Narus STA 6400, "known to be used particularly by government intelligence agencies because of its ability to sift through large amounts of data looking for preprogrammed targets."

defensetech.org

Different people have different reactions to such surveillance. Many are opposed to it in principle, but tolerate it in fact. Civil libertarians fight it tooth and nail.

In countries where the state asserts its prerogatives such surveillance is an unfortunate fact of life. The United States is different, and the debate is heated.

Jim
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