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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: combjelly who wrote (372462)	3/5/2008 8:58:45 AM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576775

The allegations are that AT&T allowed and assisted the NSA to install equipment to monitor the data traffic across their network in San Francisco and at least 6 other major centers on the West Coast. Now, the NSA claims that they are only monitoring foreign traffic, but the allegations are they have installed equipment capable of far more. In fact, the equipment appears to be capable of monitoring all traffic in real time. Installing equipment that is capable of monitoring domestic traffic .... so what? Who is being monitored illegally? And all are the damages as stipulated in the various laws governing the situation. The stated intent of this particular suit is to show AT&T that it isn't in their interest to violate the law at the behest of the government. A "potential grand liability of $7.243 trillion" doesn't seem to be in the economic interest of AT&T I would think... Yeah, its a club held over ATT's head - the message is don't help the govt or we'll crush you. There are only unsubstantiated allegations of criminality here, not actual evidence of any real criminality.