Court Filings Tell of Internet Spying

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Via The NYT.

[snip]

A former AT&T technician said on Thursday that the company cooperated with the National Security Agency in 2003 to 
install equipment capable of "vacuum-cleaner surveillance" of e-mail messages and other Internet traffic.

A statement by the technician, Mark Klein, and several company documents he saved after retiring in 2004, were filed on 
Wednesday in a class-action lawsuit against AT&T. The suit, filed in January in federal court in San Francisco by the 
Electronic Frontier Foundation, a civil liberties group, says the company helped the security agency invade its 
customers' privacy. The documents provided by Mr. Klein were filed under seal because of concerns about disclosing 
proprietary information.

Mr. Klein's documents, some of which he had provided to The New York Times, describe a room at the AT&T Internet and 
telephone hub in San Francisco that contained a piece of equipment that could sift through large volumes of Internet 
traffic.

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More:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/07/us/nationalspecial3/07spy.html

EFF:
http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2006_04.php#004538

- ferg


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"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/


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