Interesting People mailing list archives
: Feds Have a High-Speed Backdoor Into Wireless Carrier
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 16:09:35 -0800
________________________________________ From: EEkid () aol com [EEkid () aol com] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 6:53 PM To: David Farber; dfarber () cs cmu edu Subject: Feds Have a High-Speed Backdoor Into Wireless Carrier http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/03/whistleblower-f.html "A U.S. government office in Quantico, Virginia, has direct, high-speed access to a major wireless carrier's systems, exposing customers' voice calls, data packets and physical movements to uncontrolled surveillance, according to a computer security consultant who says he worked for the carrier in late 2003. "What I thought was alarming is how this carrier ended up essentially allowing a third party outside their organization to have unfettered access to their environment," Babak Pasdar, now CEO of New York-based Bat Blue told Threat Level. "I wanted to put some access controls around it; they vehemently denied it. And when I wanted to put some logging around it, they denied that." Pasdar won't name the wireless carrier in question, but his claims are nearly identical to unsourced allegations made in a federal lawsuit filed in 2006 against four phone companies and the U.S. government for alleged privacy violations. That suit names Verizon Wireless as the culprit. " ------------------------------------------- Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
Current thread:
- : Feds Have a High-Speed Backdoor Into Wireless Carrier David Farber (Mar 06)