[privacy] 27B Stroke 6: The BellSouth Denial - How Complete?

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

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


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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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