Re: Spy Agency Mined Vast Data Trove

["J.A. Terranson" <measl () mfn org>]

On Mon, 26 Dec 2005, coderman wrote:

> recent events have shown just how willing corporations are to give the
> government a blank check with only minimal assurances of propriety and
> legality.  i would bet good money the number of core providers who
> balked at DCS1000 deployments could be counted on a single hand, if
> there were even any at all...

For the record (because I think it's important that "the record" reflect
this odd fact), there were in fact major players who said "No".  I know, I
was there.  Savvis, at least up to my departure, actively refused to go
along (and yes, we *were* asked, and asked very early in the process).  I
suspect that the C&W merger may have changed that (although I have no
physical proof of this, so I cannot be absolutely certain) later on, but
at least *1* of the top ten carriers had clean hands as late as 2004.

-- 
Yours,

J.A. Terranson
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