Report: Telecoms Helped NSA Wiretapping

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

Not very fun, but certainly related to security.

- ferg

[snip]

The largest U.S. long-distance carriers cooperated with the National Security Agency’s wiretapping of international 
calls without warrants, according to a published report Monday that cited unnamed telecommunications executives and 
intelligence officials.

MCI, Sprint and AT&T grant access to their systems without warrants or court orders, and provide call-routing 
information that helps physically locate the callers, USA Today reported.

Representatives at Sprint Nextel Corp., AT&T Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc., which last year acquired MCI, had no 
comment Monday on the newspaper’s report.

[snip]

 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11202938/

- 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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