RE: Telco Hand-Off of Call Data to Israeli Company?

["Richard M. Smith" <rms () bsf-llc com>]

The entire Iraq War was sold to the American public as a series of
conspiracy theories by the Bush Administration.  Fox News was very much part
of this effort.

Richard

-----Original Message-----
From: Fergie [mailto:fergdawg () netzero net] 
Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2006 10:46 AM
To: rms () bsf-llc com
Cc: funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: RE: [funsec] Telco Hand-Off of Call Data to Israeli Company?

Interesting. Thanks for the pointer.

- ferg

p.s. Fox News can be called a lot of things :-) but propagating
conspiracy theories has never been one of them. It is usually a
bastion of right-wing, conservative political leanings.


-- "Richard M. Smith" <rms () bsf-llc com> wrote:

Here's more about Amdocs:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdocs

Amdocs has been on the radar screens of conspiracy theory types ever since
9/11.

Richard

-----Original Message-----
From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org] On
Behalf Of Fergie
Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2006 9:43 AM
To: funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: [funsec] Telco Hand-Off of Call Data to Israeli Company?

This is an interesting twist. And the first I've heard
of this possible link.

The plot thickens?

Eric Umansky writes over on his blog, where he oft-times
thinks aloud about matters of national security issues:

[snip]

Administration officials have acknowledged that the government, as the NYT
puts it, has "access to records of most telephone calls in the United
States." So what's up with Verizon and BellSouth denying USA Today's report
that they've turned over the records?

The NYT' s suggestion: The spooks are tracking only long-distance calls, and
Verizon and BellSouth hand those calls off to other providers, such as, say,
AT&T, which is the one company named that has stayed mum.

Meanwhile my friend Mr. Cook just emailed me flagging another potential
explanation, which he noticed on Fox News. (Why Cook is watching Fox News is
a different mystery.) Anyway, here's the transcript snippet he emailed me:

[Correspondent Brian] WILSON: Then there is this, Brit. FOX News has learned
that BellSouth subcontracts with an Israeli company known as Amdocs to
handle its billing, as do several other U.S. phone companies. In 2001, U.S.
intelligence officials were on record as saying that the information that
Amdocs handled was so valuable that a great deal could be learned if
sophisticated data-mining techniques were used against that information --
Brit?

HUME: OK, Brian. Thank you.

[snip]

More:
http://www.ericumansky.com/2006/05/the_telcos_hand.html

Who is this Amdocs?
http://www.amdocs.com/

Or is this some ploy by Fox News to divert attention away
from the telcos?  :-)

- ferg

--
"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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