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[privacy] 27B Stroke 6: The BellSouth Denial - How Complete?
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 17:25:42 GMT
Singel: [snip] Note that BellSouth doesn't explicitly rule out the possibility that it provided the NSA with access to its phone record database; it just says it never turned over records in bulk. They deny a contract exists, but don't explicitly say there's no agreement or memorandum of understanding. For instance, the late December Los Angeles Times story about AT&T's database of call records (a massive database comprising 312 terabytes of information and 1.88 trillion records) says that the NSA has a "direct hookup" to the database. That's different from providing bulk records to the NSA. [snip] One very specific paragraph in Singel's article here deserves special attention -- and is something that I echo: "I may be completely wrong here, but the USA Today put its credibility on the line with this story, so I'm inclined to look very closely at any denial by the companies allegedly involved." Much more here: http://blog.wired.com/27BStroke6/index.blog?entry_id=1481414 - ferg -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ privacy mailing list privacy () whitestar linuxbox org http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/privacy
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